> in many places, the choice of broadband providers is quite poor. see my > earlier posting about my client for whom Ameritech DSL was the only > affordable choice, and we just barely made it work for their application. > This seems like a specious argument. The client had chosen, as you indicate, to scrimp on their broadband provider to save money. You also indicate that other providers were available. The nature of picking any product is cost vs. benefit. In this case, the customer chose to favor cost and, thus, received less benefit.