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The ability to go off-grid is becoming more of a reality for me now. I'd love to be able to get a cabin in the middle of nowhere, slap some solar panels on top
by joshontheweb 11y ago
The ability to go off-grid is becoming more of a reality for me now. I'd love to be able to get a cabin in the middle of nowhere, slap some solar panels on top still have access to highspeed internet.
Even if you didn't want to go off-grid, this could open up a lot of developing countries to being more viable remote-working locations. I recently spent some time in Bali and considered moving there for awhile but ultimately couldn't solely because the internet was too slow and unreliable.
- NamTaf 11y agoIsn't the internet by very definition a grid?
- anamexis 11y agoBy which definition? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-grid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-grid
- NamTaf 11y agoThe internet is a grid of computers to which you connect. More than that though, conceptually "off-the-grid" means not accepting a utility serivce from a provider but rather catering for that yourself. An internet connection is arguably a utility, and you'd be accepting it from an ISP. That goes against the concept, which would suggest you should maintain your own isolated network of computers and not connect with the outside world.
- Dylan16807 11y agoYou wouldn't have to be isolated. You could make connections, just not ones that depend on a centralized ISP. But "off-the-grid" typically is talking about physical delivery over wires and pipes, not about things like wireless internet.