I don't regard simultaneously streaming 6 channels of TV and downloading the latest movie torrent in 2 minutes as a basic necessity, let alone essential.
Ten years ago, most people would have been shocked at the idea of a cell phone that had a touchscreen, a 600MHz CPU, 16GB flash, and the ability to download at 1Mbps. Yet today many people find that limiting. You might not feel that it's important to be able to stream 6 channels of TV and a torrent, but some of us have been saying for some time that things are changing. The number of TV's in a household are going up. Some can now stream directly to the TV. I have numerous devices that stream Internet radio audio, something that would have seemed completely frivolous 15 years ago, but today my AV receiver comes with the capability built-in and I even have an alarm clock that'll do it, not to mention all the MP3 players, tablet computers, etc. Streaming video is more demanding, certainly, but for a large family, what you propose isn't necessarily way out there, especially if we think about ten years down the road. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.