The early-adopter set has been playing with home networking for a few years, but now the technology is spreading to mainstream consumers, who want to split the fast Internet connection of a cable modem or digital subscriber line (DSL) among several PCs, and also share computer files and peripherals such as printers and scanners.

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BarryDillerBarry Diller's plan to spin-out the units of his company into five more centered businesses could prove lucrative for shareholders, if the spins can manage their share of debt being issued in connection with the split.

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Further, Silk's split architecture uses a pipelined, multiplexing protocol that can send all the content over a single connection.

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And while it seems highly unlikely it will split this service off and sell it individually, it too is a vision of the future: A direct connection to the entertainment providers you want rather than buying huge packages of mostly irrelevant content.

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