Besides the security implications, wouldn’t this slow the network down a considerable amount? Maybe the official wording would be something like “a fraction of a second” but that’s a long time when it comes to network traffic… I can’t imagine using a network with one of these monitoring tools for something like online gaming, the delay would have to be by several hundred milliseconds for all the sniffing, wouldn’t you think?

Anyway, I’m on Road Runner cable and hopefully they’ll be smart. I’ve liked them in the past because they are one of few providers that let you host on port 80; perhaps they’ll continue being nonrestrictive and noninvasive by not installing one of these spy boxes…