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Yeah, bandwidth is the big thing people overlook. The land-based backbones across the country is already made of bundles of 10Gbit strands. Can you imagine goin

• morphle 13y ago
  And these backbones are all in the hands of companies and governments very much against these proposals, or anything offering freedom. Don't discount the demise of Net Neutrality either, they'll filter out all these tunnels or just store them in Bluffdale for future decryption and prosecution. Unless of course, you are one of the good guys with private backbone fibers… (see my HN profile for those fibers and open hardware optical switches).
• lukifer 13y ago
  Even if traffic is drastically slower, on the order of a dialup modem, there is still be massive value in free internet for the poor and the developing world. Text is a powerful medium.
  • sliverstorm 13y ago
    Let's figure we can get 10 WiFi links at half of full speed across the country, 10 x 30Mbps. That's 300Mbps, or roughly 1 bit per second per person. About 10 letters per minute. Good luck. Even the very first modems offered 300 bits per second, so you would need 3,000 simultaneous non-colliding WiFi links across the country to have enough bandwidth for everyone to enjoy the speeds of the very first modems - a cool 40 letters per second.
    • userulluipeste 13y ago
      "About 10 letters per minute." This is a OpenLibreNet telegram. Full stop.
      • dllthomas 13y ago
        Assuming everyone is using it all the time, and there's no meaningful caching that can be done.