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British Telecom won't bring you DSL? Go mesh: Another chapter in the battle of giant telecoms to try to continue to act as a pricey gatekeeper for what is increasingly an easily commodifiable service for people far away from the headwaters of Internet bandwidth. BT and other telecoms say sharing residential service is a no-no, but typically only a slightly more expensive offering can be shared when it's classified as business access. (Banning sharing has nothing to do with bandwidth, everything to do with pricing.) MeshAP from LocustWorld is prominently mentioned in this article; they've got an inexpensive, open-source solution, that they sell as a way to create these kinds of irregular networks.