Cleathe Palmer's three-bedroom bungalow in Evanston, Ill., would spark envy in countless neighborhoods across the country. Not because it has more bedrooms than anybody else's, or the biggest yard. It's the wiring. The 35-year-old software developer has wired three com-puters together with a digital subscriber line (dsl) to the Internet that zips online at a siz-zling 635 kilobits per second, some 11 times faster than most dial-up modems. "Yeah, it hums," Palmer says.
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