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Wi-Fi Should Scare the Hell Out of Verizon and AT&T

24 点作者 roye超过 10 年前

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kaoD超过 10 年前
I&#x27;m still dreaming of a world connected by a giant Wi-Fi mesh network (or several federated networks) fully maintained and supported by its users. It would be like the Internet as it should&#x27;ve been: free as in freedom.<p>There are efforts underway such as Guifi[1] (very popular in Catalonia) but there&#x27;s a high barrier to entry, the documentation is very sparse and mainly in Catalan. I&#x27;m a technical person but gave up researching how to add a node in my city.<p>The project is really cool and provides both connectivity and services for the network, including gateways into the Internet.<p>Why didn&#x27;t mesh networks flourish? What killed the dream of a truly free and federated internet? Is there a similar effort in the US or other parts of Europe?<p>How cool would that be? I&#x27;ll keep dreaming...<p>[1] <a href="http://guifi.net/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;guifi.net&#x2F;</a>
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jrapdx3超过 10 年前
Curious. I mean WiFi still connects up to something, probably a line owned by Verizon, etc. WiFi is not 100% available everywhere, may not be secure (but then again, the cell connection isn&#x27;t either...). Nonetheless, cell connection is often the only way to get Internet at all.<p>I guess the gripe might be not using cell networks makes it hard to charge for some cell services. I suppose WiFi will just cost more. WiFi may be &quot;free&quot; at the hotel I stay at, but the hotel is paying for it (and probably padding their rates accordingly).<p>IOW, strongly suspect the costs will &quot;come out in the wash&quot;, we&#x27;ll pay for it one way or the other. Besides, FWIW I know several people who use their cell connection to feed WiFi routers. Think about it, since more and more people are abandoning land-lines and &quot;going all cell&quot; where would their WiFi be connected to anyway?
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walterbell超过 10 年前
&gt; Startups have started building low-bandwidth wireless networks for connected devices that cost only a fraction of the subscription fees for LTE networks.<p>Too bad they didn&#x27;t name these startups.
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cornewut超过 10 年前
I would love a mechanism that would reimburse me for sharing my WiFi with others.
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