1) Good point
2) Has other benefits too, but I imagine it comes at additional cost and speed sacrifices
3) Best option, too bad it's taken away from most US consumers. Like most, I have one option for cable and DSL options are substantially slower.
4) Hear, hear.
Definitely seems annoying...
I recently mistyped a domain and received the TWC hijacked search page I hadn't seen in a long while. I had fixed this by updating my router settings to use google DNS. I figured the router may have reverted default settings somehow. I checked my router and it's set correctly to use google DNS...