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Re: Mesh Networks

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Post by dil8 »

daurnimator wrote: post #15

Similar thing exists in Melbourne, Australia: http://www.melbournewireless.org.au/

I'm in Melbourne too... started thinking about this while browsing reddit on the weekend, had no idea there was a group

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Post by lostapathy »

xradionut wrote: post #18

Reminds me of the packet networks that we hams used to build back in the BBS days. Most of the stations went off air with wide spread commercial internet service and operator turn over, but there's a renewed interest with newer, cheaper, radio gear come out. Also there's many cities with a first responders mesh network.

There's been a renewed interest in this lately among hams, actually. http://www.hsmm-mesh.org/

I'm a little disappointed, though, that at least local to me most of the interest centers around hacking the old WRT-54G rather than more modern and powerful gear.

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Post by rwhitman »

I guess it makes sense that the future could be dominated by multiple, parallel internets of varying degrees of freedom. The corporate controlled internet we know today is just the mainstream realm of YouTube and email, while darker DIY internets pop up that are the realm of torrents, bitcoin and various hackery. Kind of seems obvious this would happen eventually

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Post by zizee »

frisco wrote: post #20

I saw an article about this a little while ago. If anywhere in the world could support a wide scale mesh network, it would have to be the Bay Area. It would be a really cool experiment to blanket a part of the Valley in mesh wifi: I imagine it would be very doable to raise $100K and send 1,500 mesh routers to people in Palo Alto or SOMA. Open Mesh has some really cool low-cost ($50 - $75) hardware that seems to just…

rhodey - you have been hellbanned. It looks like your first comment ever was modded down, and that was that. Lame.

rhodey wrote:

A group of us are already well on the way in Oakland, stop by some time! https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh

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Post by 616c »

frisco wrote: post #20

I saw an article about this a little while ago. If anywhere in the world could support a wide scale mesh network, it would have to be the Bay Area. It would be a really cool experiment to blanket a part of the Valley in mesh wifi: I imagine it would be very doable to raise $100K and send 1,500 mesh routers to people in Palo Alto or SOMA. Open Mesh has some really cool low-cost ($50 - $75) hardware that seems to just…

And yet another mesh network, from HacDC hackerspace in Washington.

http://project-byzantium.org/

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Post by sandGorgon »

Im quite surprised that noone mentioned AirJaldi - which has to be some of the most pioneering work in this area, over some of the most inhospitable terrain.

It was built to connect the Tibetan community in Dharmsala, India using modified, off the shelf hardware and custom software at some of the hardest mountainous terrain where such equipment can be deployed.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirJaldi

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