After watching this video I really think this is the future of the internet. I’m tired of paying such high costs to my ISP only for it to go down. Imagine always having a reliable internet connection at a fraction of the cost.
Imagine always having a reliable internet connection at a fraction of the cost.
Civilized countries have already figured this out.
How do you think that the internet works?
How do you propose to connect such a mesh in New York to New Jersey, or Chicago, Los Angeles, or Sydney?
OP might mean it’s the future of internet access. I don’t think these network operators are under any illusions that they could connect NYC to San Francisco with just LoS radios.
Not really in a situation where I can watch a video without potentially annoying someone right now, but
A municipal mesh network isn’t a bad idea, but I worry about what security measures are in place, effectively securing a wireless network with hundreds of independent stations feels like it wouldn’t be trivial.
And surely this will need a WAN gateway to the internet somewhere, so it’ll only be as reliable as the route to that uplink.
This might have all been addressed in the video though, I’ll see if I can find an article about it.
A municipal mesh network isn’t a bad idea, but I worry about what security measures are in place, effectively securing a wireless network with hundreds of independent stations feels like it wouldn’t be trivial.
Probably the same as a WISP, since that’s what this essentially is. I don’t know about specifics of security, since they didn’t mention it.
And surely this will need a WAN gateway to the internet somewhere, so it’ll only be as reliable as the route to that uplink.
They have volunteer nodes that connect to each other and multiple super nodes that connect to WAN via peering and having transit donated by Packet.net and Webair. I don’t know what any of that means, but that’s what they said about how they are able to provide service.
They do encrypt using WPA2 and firewall separation the network also supports VPN
A similar project in Europe (well, mostly Germany) is Freifunk.
No.
