> Most people don't even talk to their neighbors, so even if you lived in a neighborhood that had a high enough density of nodes for this to work, why would you

> Most people don't even talk to their neighbors, so even if you lived in a neighborhood that had a high enough density of nodes for this to work, why would you want to share a little ad-hoc network with your neighbors? I've been thinking about this recently. The idea is that it's transparent. Imagine, for example, if Apple started shipping this on all iOS devices, or it became a common android feature. Here is a blog post I wrote on the topic last month: http://stevenjewel.com/2014/01/android-mesh/ http://stevenjewel.com/2014/01/android-mesh/