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Well, if web policing is enforced by ISPs, it may give birth to the next generation of internet. I'm not kidding. I'm serious. Let me explain. Today everyone h

by snambi 15y ago

Well, if web policing is enforced by ISPs, it may give birth to the next generation of internet. I'm not kidding. I'm serious. Let me explain. Today everyone has a wifi router. Imagine, one wifi router sending request to the next wifi router, which routes to the next router towards the destination. It is theoretically possible to reach the destination and get back. It may be a million hops. But, it is possible. Today's wifi routers are designed to talk to CABLE or DSL. But they can be made to talk to a nearby wifi router also. If we do that the entire world will become one giant network. That would be the real internet. At that time, we won't need ISPs. Today majority of traffic goes through ISPs. If this type of wifi routers come to existence, even countries like Iran cannot control internet. This may be a blessing in disguise.

chrisballinger 15y ago
Do you have any technical background in this area? The usability (latency) of such networks is ridiculously bad, and the whole idea is based on the assumption that the average guy will have a wifi router capable of supporting this new protocol. The bridge nodes to connect back to the global internet are also some easy points of failure. Not to mention that anyone stupid enough to not be using a VPN or HTTPS over such a connection will have their information leaked to a ton of cool hacker kids running a custom build of DD-WRT on their Linksys router. I don't mean to be a buzzkill, but the way around the copyright cops isn't a janky 2.4 GHz "mesh network" using 802.11. It's going to require a lot more than that.
- snambi 15y ago
  It is just an idea. You are right, the current wifi routers doesn't have capability. However, this is done by the backbone routers at present. If we go back to the 80s, the PCs of that time cannot handle the computing needs of a large website. However, today nearly all datacenters are run using PC hardware. In other words the business of big servers got commoditized in the early 2000s. In the same way, the big network backbone business will be commoditized at some point in time. The restrictions such as this, will only accelerate the commoditization.

by snambi 15y ago

chrisballinger 15y ago

Do you have any technical background in this area? The usability (latency) of such networks is ridiculously bad, and the whole idea is based on the assumption that the average guy will have a wifi router capable of supporting this new protocol. The bridge nodes to connect back to the global internet are also some easy points of failure. Not to mention that anyone stupid enough to not be using a VPN or HTTPS over such a connection will have their information leaked to a ton of cool hacker kids running a custom build of DD-WRT on their Linksys router. I don't mean to be a buzzkill, but the way around the copyright cops isn't a janky 2.4 GHz "mesh network" using 802.11. It's going to require a lot more than that.

snambi 15y ago
It is just an idea. You are right, the current wifi routers doesn't have capability. However, this is done by the backbone routers at present. If we go back to the 80s, the PCs of that time cannot handle the computing needs of a large website. However, today nearly all datacenters are run using PC hardware. In other words the business of big servers got commoditized in the early 2000s. In the same way, the big network backbone business will be commoditized at some point in time. The restrictions such as this, will only accelerate the commoditization.