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I am not tech enough to know, but could an ad-hoc network be created from people's wifi connections that could get around an internet backbone shutdown? At leas
by gregpilling 16y ago
I am not tech enough to know, but could an ad-hoc network be created from people's wifi connections that could get around an internet backbone shutdown? At least it should work to connect people within urban areas, I would think.
- TillE 16y agoSure. There are a few local projects along these lines, with limited success. See freifunk.net, for example. The main problem is that the range of WiFi is quite short even in denser urban areas (so you wind up with lots of fragmented micro-networks), and it requires significant effort from each participant to set up. If Fon started making this an optional feature on their routers, it could get really interesting. Or maybe just a way of connecting Android phones into a local communication network. Does anyone know if there's some formal spec for this kind of mesh network?