Someday that will sound very much like the oft-repeated (and wrongly attributed) "640k ought to be enough for anyone!"

The value of the coins as historical artifacts is likely to be significantly higher than the market rate for gold.

1) Lease a box at a site with reliable, low-cost bandwidth (Somewhere like PhoenixNAP, AtlantaNAP, Rackspace, etc.) - This should run you between $50 - $150/mo for a decent system with several terabytes/mo data transfer (More than enough for Hulu, Netflix, etc.). 2) Make some friends in the Navy IT dept. - Have them help you set up a hosted VPN service on the box in their off time. This will be the lowest cost, most secure, and most reliable service you can get.

Um, you've got to go further than that. Yes it's a private company, but where do they go for their funding?

... where are THEY getting their money from?

Oh for a few mod points right now.

A purportedly large number of employees were highly aware of how bad things were. One employee even published a rather scathing open letter to the company about a year ago: http://www.bgr.com/2011/06/30/open-letter-to-blackberry-bosses-senior-rim-exec-tells-all-as-company-crumbles-around-him/

No... read his subject line.

I've used these guys for about a year now with very good success: http://www.securedservers.com/index.php

Move parent up

He was 74, not 80, and he held a current 2nd class medical certification from the FAA. Most private pilots only have a 3rd class; his health was fine and almost certainly had nothing to do with it. You can read more about his credentials here: http://www.av8rdan.com/2011/09/before-assuming-age-was-the-cause-of.html Also, photos are circulating that show control surfaces missing from the aircraft before the crash. Something went wrong mechanically - please do your research before making mindless assumptions. http://corduroyplanet.blogspot.com/2011/09/chilled.html

I was going to reference the same article from Tom's - they basically have already done what OP is asking for, using hardware including Cisco, Aruba, Meraki, Ruckus, Apple, and HP. The second and third pages "Hardware And Methodology, Explained" might especially be of interest.

I feel dated, I mean, "back in the day" this was how you used a machine like this...