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The latency would be horrible. Fine for email, or downloading something you need in the future. But real time interaction as chat, or browsing the web would be
by hvidgaard 9y ago
The latency would be horrible. Fine for email, or downloading something you need in the future. But real time interaction as chat, or browsing the web would be really slow. Streaming would be out of the question as well.
- agumonkey 9y agochat would be a problem, streaming is note that important
- hvidgaard 9y agoStreaming obviously matters to a great many people. The success of Netflix speak for it self, so ignoring it is dooming the idea from the start. This is something that needs critical mass, otherwise it will not work.
- libertyEQ 9y agoThe mesh system could be augmented with the TV broadcast spectrum (UHF, ~650MHz), where supernodes could operate with high ERP. This would require rethinking our allocation of the EM spectrum.