I have no tech in this fight.
I get my interlubes connection via wi-fi laptop from a nice old lady across the street who knows about it--we're both disabled, and I change her lighbulbs.
Only one of my house's windows passes wi-fi under my steel roof--with a router that lets me splice in a 10-year-old, 2T XP desktop I use for a media and print server, preserving my CDs, making MP3s for my old iPhone, etc.
I have a 48" inch, high refresh rate Chinese HDTV (@$400 Amazon Cyber Monday 2 yrs. ago!) hooked up by VGA cable and microstereo jack. I don't do cable; I have excellent digital broadcast and FM antennas. Yes, I have to hook-up my cameras by wire. After bitter corporate experience, I've come to prefer trailing edge technology to bleeding edge technology.
I know it isn't Bill Gates' mansion. But it ain't AOL, either.
One of the most intriguing people I ever met on the web was a disabled lady in California who depended on library computers. She was unhappy there, and I sent her $ to take the bus to North Carolina, where she had friends. She remains happy, ten years later.
Truly, this is a time of miracles and wonders. Maybe the human interleaving is more important than the seamlessness of the interface.
Edited by Omnivorous, : No reason given.
"If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."
Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.
-Terence