Was browsing through the skunkworks blog archives and came across <a href="http://skunkworks-ke.blogspot.com/2007/02/community-networks-broadband-ratings.html">this post</a><br><i><br>The idea of building out estate/community networks was raised ...<br>

Techies
in various estates can get a 128k link into the apartment/estate ...
cable it themselves cheaply, and share a 128k internet link. The techie
living within the estate would provide 24/7 support to users with their
computer issues.<br>Setup costs would be shared amongst 10 users ... so
not more than 5k per user. Most likely a lot less. Monthly charges
would come to about 2k per user.<br>Techie would setup a local &quot;server&quot;
for mail, caching, voip, file-services and more ... All these local
servers could be connected together eg a larger asterisk network</i>.<br><br><br clear="all">Josiah <br><a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/charles_de_gaulle.html" target="_blank">Charles de Gaulle</a>  - &quot;The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.&quot;