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Originally Posted by greencreeper
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Ok, here goes ....
/throws molotov cocktail
This is a brilliant idea on the face of it. It's sad that many PCs don't have Ethernet already, but I suppose this is because Ethernet has been seen as a networking technology of use only to businesses until very recently, with the growth of Broadband. Price competition has long been fierce in the PC market so no manufacturer would want to install hardware they thought the customer wouldn't miss anyway.
You have to remember that the regular posters on here are not in any way representative of the average computer user. It's all very well saying that a 10 year old could easily install a NIC if NTL sent out a free one (I installed a disk drive interface in my BBC when I was 12 or 13!) but not every household has a handy 10-year-old. It would be a recipe for litigation, as someone, somewhere, would be guaranteed to fry the insides of their PC (or themselves) and then claim it was NTL's fault.