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Remember the last time HK protesters were using mesh networking via an app in 2014? Something like FireChat or something Anyway, funny how this is still novel
by rolltiide 7y ago
Remember the last time HK protesters were using mesh networking via an app in 2014? Something like FireChat or something
Anyway, funny how this is still novel news and there is no market leader in this space, because that was 5, almost 6 years ago.
- swiley 7y agoThe problem is that the popular mobile OSes make a lot of this stuff harder than it needs to be. Maybe if it ended up in the IEEE standard... I still feel like ad-hoc wifi networks with something like BGP would be better. On the other hand there still isn't a good standard "chat over IP" except maybe unix "talk" which just about no one uses.
- upofadown 7y agoUnix talk requires servers. For a well standardized chat over IP protocol using servers we have XMPP.
- Nextgrid 7y agoSIP can work point-to-point directly over IP without a central server. I remember trying that with 2 SIP phones connected directly via Ethernet (configured with static Its) and I could call the IP of the other phone and that one would ring.