[P1] Networking from Across the Street

[Larry Kollar]

> I think if an account used excessive bandwidth (which could be as much 
> a concern as the lost revenue from additional customers), it would be 
> a tip-off that something was up.

Considering that many cable operators, especially Comcast, have legions 
of zombie PCs spewing spam all over the place, excessive bandwidth 
usage doesn't seem to be an issue with most operators.

Having said that, I understand that Comcast has begun trying to clean 
up their act. This "one PC per cable modem" issue might be part of it, 
but the two issues don't quite match up. I *think* that the "one PC" 
thing is really one *device* *directly* connected to the cable modem, 
which means hooking up a NAT router & having any number of PCs behind 
it would be OK.

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