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PirateBox-based internet?
Most of us have probably heard of the PirateBox in the last couple of days. (In case you didnt: [wiki.daviddarts.com]
I saw a comment somewhere that you might even be able to inter-connect those boxes. (could be lifehacker, not sure) Could that hypothetically mean that you can set up your own "grassroots internet"?
Anyone you'd want contact with would have to be connected to the same network of course, but if it's something that grows really big, then you don't need isp's etc.
Problem of course is inter-continental contact, but are there any other things which would make this not work?
- Swannie 16y agoSure, it has and is being done. GuiFi is a running example of a mesh network in Spain. http://guifi.net/en http://guifi.net/en Friefunk are a number of networking running in Germany http://wiki.freifunk.net/Kategorie:English http://wiki.freifunk.net/Kategorie:English Village Telco is a project using mesh wifi to provide voice telecoms in remote parts of the world using custom hardware http://www.villagetelco.org/ http://www.villagetelco.org/ The issues come with a smart mesh protocol. There are many around, 802.11s, oslr, BATMAN, etc. (Village Telco & Friefunk use BATMAN). See Project Serval for implementation of BATMAN on Android devices. http://www.servalproject.org/how-it-works http://www.servalproject.org/how-it-works
- JCB_K 16y agoVery interesting, thanks! Especially the Android-app has huge potential, when people actually use it. Using the situation in Egypt as a case-study, loads of people there could've had an app which inter-connects them and supplies them with a messaging-system, and when the network could handle it, voice-contact.