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Ask HN: How does someone in India access the internet when taken down?
Title is the question. I'm currently living in India, and want to understand what I can do to retain internet access when the government attempts to take it down. Currently, the government run ISP appears to be shutting down, while private ISPs have not yet. I understand systems, networks not so much.
- What are terms I should google to get good information?
- What technology is useful in this situation? Is there some way to access the internet still?
- How do I most easily setup a mesh network for communication?
- What books/manuals should I keep at hand?
- mathewar 7y agohttps://www.opengarden.com/firechat/ https://www.opengarden.com/firechat/
- toast0 7y agoIf they keep phones up, you want to get a dial up ISP with a modem. Preferably on a land line. If they're pulling down phonelines too, you may be able to do satellite internet, if that's available. Tends to be spendy though.
- known 7y agoFirechat, Signal Offline, Vojer, Bridgefy, Briar https://www.thequint.com/tech-and-auto/tech-news/apps-android-ios-use-offline-when-internet-shut-down https://www.thequint.com/tech-and-auto/tech-news/apps-androi...
- m-p-3 7y agoBut that's only for messaging, not accessing the Internet.
- barpetiabhut 7y agoUse BSLN landline broadband internet. In the recent internet ban by indian govt in assam the bsnl landline internet was active and working (torrent/porn/darkweb are blocked). --: imindian live in india/assam/barpeta
- villgax 7y agoElon san's satellites will save us. Only if they don't ban possession of those transceivers.
- codegeek 7y agoGet a Jio account and hot spot it ?
- motyar 7y agoDNS queries are not banned! So you can tunnel network traffic over DNS. More info https://davidhamann.de/2019/05/12/tunnel-traffic-over-dns-ssh/ https://davidhamann.de/2019/05/12/tunnel-traffic-over-dns-ss...
- fellaindian 7y agoHi fellow brother, this comment is unrelated. But we need WOKE Indians like you. I run a website named India Channel. http://indiachannel.heliohost.org http://indiachannel.heliohost.org It is an anonymous website like 4chan but without images and made for Indians. We have an IRC too (check page). If you say, I'll add a programming /prog/ board too.