We also have a big community Germany that has been using wifi mesh networks and ad-hoc routing protocols since 2003: http://wiki.freifunk.net/Kategorie:English

We also have a big community Germany that has been using wifi mesh networks and ad-hoc routing protocols since 2003: http://wiki.freifunk.net/Kategorie:English http://wiki.freifunk.net/Kategorie:English Though all of these networks are very impressive, I don't think they can replace the big ISPs in case some one shuts down the Internet completely.