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I would love to create my own neighborhood wired network, but up front cost would be a problem, and I don't think my neighbors care that much.

Definitely true. Supposedly Motherboard will be publishing some guides on this, so I'll have to wait and see how helpful those are.

I keep seeing stuff about using VPNs, but that be throttled easily. Wireless is just a mess and just that much more insecure/unreliable.