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Do you think that redecentralization will also depend on the public Internet or perhaps instead focus more on alternative networks?
by haxel 11y ago
Do you think that redecentralization will also depend on the public Internet or perhaps instead focus more on alternative networks?
- e12e 11y agoThere are hardly any alternative networks? GSM/3g/4g are illegal to run on an ad-hoc basis most everywhere. Which leaves cabled networks (which are generally not legal to set up as metro/internets -- or even link freely between different buildings if you need to cross community owned land) and wireless mesh-networks. I think both are interesting, but I don't see them forming a global interconnected network capable of delivering symmetric gigabit to 10 billion people (not that the Internet of today does that either -- yet). I suppose local 802.11-whatever community networks might be connected in metro-/internets with high-bandwidth point-to-point links -- but it seems likely that they'd end up connected to the Internet -- perhaps on the ipv6 Internet. Either way, hopefully internet access will continue to evolve like a utility, like electricity and water.
- paraschopra 11y ago>GSM/3g/4g are illegal to run on an ad-hoc basis most everywhere Why? any specific reason?
- jacquesm 11y agoInterference with 'official' networks, besides that spectrum use requires a license in just about every country except for some very specific low power unlicensed segments of the spectrum.