Am I crazy or did the URL of the submission change? I've never seen that done on HN before.
Mesh Networks
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Hmm? I can see it, and I don't have "showdead" on.
I have showdead on and it was dead before, and now it's not. Maybe a mod saw it and fixed it or...?
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#53I 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…
Before they radically changed direction and were acquired by Cisco, Meraki tried to target community meshes in SF and beforehand as Roofnet at MIT. They handed out/sold a lot of mesh APs. I wonder what happened to the boxes.
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#54While this is a great solution for places without easy last-mile connections, it seems to me this would still be vulnerable, as one compromised connection would essentially allow the same kind of snooping that we've got going on now. Does anyone know whether this is so, or how to protect against snooping, as I would assume there is some implicit level of trust required for a network like this to stay secure.
Meshnets don't scale well anyway so perhaps strength in numbers applies here: if there are so many small meshnets that getting a mole in each one is totally impractical, spying on meshers en masse becomes totally impractical.
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#55Again, the sudden title change of submissions suck.
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#56Similar thing exists in Melbourne, Australia: http://www.melbournewireless.org.au/
There used to be one in Brisbane in the mid 2000s (BrisMesh), but it seems to be dead now.
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#57Again, the sudden title change of submissions suck.
Update: Thanks for changing it back.
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#58I 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…
A group of us are already well on the way in Oakland, stop by some time! https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh
Are there any plans to connect up to an SF mesh? I could see setting up some backbones across the bay, but I'm not sure what the technicalities are around this.
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#59If you live in Seattle and you're curious about mesh networking, I highly recommend checking out http://seattlewireless.net/
They've been at it since 2000, have various nodes throughout the city and some impressive long distance directional links. (Seattle's topography provides some interesting challenges.) When I lived there in about 2005 there were regular wireless hack nights. Find Matt Westervelt or Rob Flickenger.
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#60Am I crazy or did the URL of the submission change? I've never seen that done on HN before.
I've seen it happen on rare occasion when the original submission was content-free blogspam.