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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 t
by 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 agoIt 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.