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This is true. I think it's the only practical approach given current technology though. When somebody comes up with a £50 home wifi access point that has a ran
by mike-cardwell 15y ago
This is true. I think it's the only practical approach given current technology though.
When somebody comes up with a £50 home wifi access point that has a range of a mile or more inside an urban environment, that is when we'll get a proper darknet.
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- muyuu 15y agoThere are wimax routers that already make it possible, but the vast majority of people want simple wifi. It does the job and most importantly it's what the ISP installs for them. There is not a good evolutionarily stable strategy that leads to 1-mile-range wifi becoming standard. At least not now and not any time soon.
- conanite 15y agoI'd love to have a wimax router, but aren't they expensive? And require a license to operate?
- TillE 15y agoWhy would you need a mile in an urban environment? Trace out a circle with that radius in Google Earth; it's an absurd range. The idea is that you have a pretty high density of users. 100 meters would be more than enough to cross any street and reach several buildings away in any direction. Even in an American suburb, it'd reach a few houses away. That's a realistic goal: 100 meters, not 1600.
- dwiel 15y agoI'm not 100% sure on this, but I think that part of what makes the longer range nice is that it requires fewer hops and thus lower latency.
- mike-cardwell 15y agoBecause none of my neighbours will have the hardware. And if they don't have it, I'm not getting it because it's a waste of my time. If you expand the number of neighbours to all of those that are within a mile of me, you increase the likelyhood of finding somebody by a large amount. I would buy kit just because I'd be interested in finding these people. Chicken/Egg etc