Forgotten by the Future, Some Take the Internet Into Their Own Hands
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Forgotten by the Future, Some Take the Internet Into Their Own Hands
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#2This is nothing new....
Here in barcelona, spain, there is a project called guifi.net which started out as a open wifi network and now also has private fiber installed. There are over 20000 nodes connected to the guifi.net network now.
http://guifi.net/en/ (sorry for the bad translations on some parts of the page. We are working with getting them fixed.
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#3I hope this works - I'm sure plenty of people in Manchester would be prepared to get rid of their existing provider if this succeeds elsewhere in the county.
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#4All we had to do was begin building a WISP, sign 3 customers and put out some flyers and Comcast (who'd previously, perpetually said they'd service the area in 4 years time) rushed in and within about 6 weeks had service to everyone.
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#5Farmers are awesome.
They are the ox where the homestone rests. (I guess not much people will get this reference)
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#6This was already posted earlier
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#7Very interesting to see. I had no idea there were so many community-owned providers. That begs the question: Would community providers do deep-packet inspection and send out copyright notices like the big telcos do? Or would they, as community-owned enterprises, be more dumb-pipe-ish? If so, maybe fighting anti-community-telco laws is the place to look for helping secure internet freedom in the future.
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#8I hope this works - I'm sure plenty of people in Manchester would be prepared to get rid of their existing provider if this succeeds elsewhere in the county.
Mm resurrect Poptel then :-)
For you younguns Poptel was a cooperative and an early ISP in the UK.
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#9Farmers are awesome. They are the ox where the homestone rests. (I guess not much people will get this reference)
I literally got this reference thanks to Mystery Science Theater 3000. It contains culture. Who knew?
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#10Very interesting to see. I had no idea there were so many community-owned providers. That begs the question: Would community providers do deep-packet inspection and send out copyright notices like the big telcos do? Or would they, as community-owned enterprises, be more dumb-pipe-ish? If so, maybe fighting anti-community-telco laws is the place to look for helping secure internet freedom in the future.
They would be likely to do what the record companies ask. They are small and don't have a lot of money to fight it with legal strength. They'll fold.