Word: neill
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...Nikki O'Neill, a plant pathologist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is no slouch when it comes to computers. Nor does she shy away from home-improvement projects, having handled the electrical work for an addition to the house she shares with her husband and two children in Silver Spring, Md. But when O'Neill, 54, tried to set up a home network so that her family's four computers could share printers and Internet access, she met her match...
...Neill says she spent maybe 30 hours reading online tutorials, consulting sales clerks, buying and installing equipment and running new cables--but finally had to call in an expert. He charged $300 to get her Ethernet-based system running--money that O'Neill ultimately was thrilled to pay. "We can walk around the house with our laptops," she says, "and wherever there's a jack, we can plug in and go online...
...Doubt tunes, a husband looking up recipes for ribs--networking is the way to go. "The No. 1 reason why home users are networking is to share broadband," says Chris Amori, the owner of Amori Network Solutions, based in North Potomac, Md., and the expert who came to O'Neill's rescue. In-Stat, a market-research firm based in Scottsdale, Ariz., expects the number of home networks in North America to jump to 9.8 million by year-end, up from 4.2 million at the end of 2000, as broadband services become more widely available and networking products get cheaper...
...want to network, perhaps it's best just to leave your broadband provider out of it. O'Neill says her high-speed cable operator didn't offer any network support yet wanted to sell her IP addresses. "That," she says, "is a dead end." The companies that win the competition to network America's homes will be the ones that offer something truly useful or entertaining in return for all those extra charges...
...economy's resiliency has some economists, and even the Administration, asserting that last year's tough times don't qualify for R-word status. "It seems quite clear now that our economy maybe never suffered a recession," Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill said last week. Sung Won Sohn, chief economist at Wells Fargo, agrees: "I personally don't believe we went into a recession." By one measure they're correct. Recessions are commonly defined as at least two consecutive quarters of declining gross domestic product, a measure of national output. This slump didn't make the cut. There has been...