Umm... what?

We have got ad-hoc wifi, you know. And technically speaking, it sucks. There's actual reasons you can save power if you've got a base station that can hold packets for other stations. As a result, people don't use it as much.

Most places, if you're in the same "local, physical space", and both have connectivity up to the internet, you're also in the same local network space; why kill battery life just so you can say you're connecting directly?

Then again, I'm no revolutionary WRT handheld computers; maybe I lack the vision to go get myself gloriously blown up by whoever it is I'm supposed to be revolting against.