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Building a mesh network* is a much cheaper, more realistic alternative. Also, with regard to your point about "starting an ISP", I don't know the legalities an
by ethagnawl 9y ago
Building a mesh network* is a much cheaper, more realistic alternative.
Also, with regard to your point about "starting an ISP", I don't know the legalities and IANAL, but NYC Mesh goes out of their way to state that they _are not_ an ISP - there's probably a reason for that.
- https://nycmesh.net https://nycmesh.net
- https://www.alliedmedia.org/dctp https://www.alliedmedia.org/dctp
- notyourday 9y agoMesh networks do not work at scale.
- ethagnawl 9y agoHow not? I'm not disagreeing, but genuinely curious.
- notyourday 9y agoFundamentally, mesh network is a shared medium. Think of it as ethernet over hubs. As long as there are not lots of talkers it works just fine. The more talkers you get the worse it becomes.
- ethagnawl 9y agoIf those "talkers" all had hubs which were participants in the mesh, would that help the network "scale"? Also, _what is_ the "scale" issue? Network congestion? Latency introduced by the need to relay a message from node A1 to node Zn? Something else entirely?
- notyourday 9y agoNetwork congested which is going to cause latency.