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I'd love to see a world where an enormous network of these makes big telecom obsolete. Don't think the issues with big internet will ever push enough people int
by mentos 12y ago
I'd love to see a world where an enormous network of these makes big telecom obsolete. Don't think the issues with big internet will ever push enough people into creating this but at least there's a safety net. Pun intended?
- y4mi 12y agothis would only work in cities. any towns and smaller villages would henceforth be without service. and each city would be disconnected from the next big city, as there is no realistic way to span that amount of space in between for hobbyists. but it would be great, despite these limitations. governments would no longer be able to kill all communication... until they adapted anyway. nothing easier than spamming these networks with useless entries to hide the actually worthwhile ones
- Istof 12y agoif similar devices became available with support for "super wi-fi", it might become possible to make it work in smaller cities or even villages... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Wi-Fi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Wi-Fi
- drdaeman 12y agoWould be fun to see that, but I fear it's really hard. Routing in a mesh network is a tricky subject. Even ISPs (those who care) have issues ensuring that there would be enough bandwidth for peers to watch their videos and low enough latency to play their games. Especially it's tricky to balance ingress trafic when there are multiple paths to you (your ISP has many peers), but one pipe's clogged and one's nearly unused (and situation changes all the time, so next day - or sometimes even hour - it could be the opposite).
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