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What is especially exciting about the idea, is the opportunity to incorporate modern internet into the town from the start. The article mentions solar panels a
by olah_1 5y ago
What is especially exciting about the idea, is the opportunity to incorporate modern internet into the town from the start.
The article mentions solar panels and wifi technicians. Naturally, the town would be equipped with a kind of mesh net for local communication in cases of outages, etc.
But also, the town librarian could maintain something like community resources hosted on the mesh network. Design documents, etc.
Of course, the town would provide a Pleroma or Matrix server to all residents too :)
- wyager 5y agoMesh networks don’t actually scale well compared to traditional fiber topologies. If you have the opportunity to bury fiber from the get-go, that’s a much better option for most optimization criteria (latency & bandwidth, for starters).