Michael provided one reason why multihoming isn't always worth it. The other reason is that pretty many problems in Internet are caused by routing instabilities, and multihoming only provides more ways for the instabilities to affect the "redundant" network. Most of global routing problems can be classified as "Bysantine" in theory of fault-tolerant systems. I.e. faults which cannot be handled by replication of components. In my experience, purchasing a UPS is a much smarter way to spend money on improving reliability. Note that regular telephone service does not generally employ multihoming and dynamic adaptive routing, but has a lot better reliability. Something to think about. --vadim