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Anyone taking part into a mesh network project?
I'm been wanting to join one for quite a long time, but unfortunately there's no one nearby with who i may link with. There are a few projects like freifunk, guifi.net,etc
There are also other projects that rely on LoRa for bigger range, but the throughput is ofc lower
1 year ago · 👍 mp0, caphesti
@KakaFega I think most normies are hard to convince of anything, lol. · 1 year ago
@comatoast yes! that's exactly what a mesh network (not necessarily just wireless, it can be wired across neighbours) would be :) The good thing about wireless is that you don't need to be close, just need line of sight. But the problem with these projects is that it requires investment and the "average joe" is like "I already have the internet, what do i need that for?"... Getting a convincing reason is the most difficult part · 1 year ago
@kakafega Wouldn't we need to establish a competetor network in the pyshical world in order to compete with the internet? That sounds improbable due to city ordnances/ · 1 year ago
@comatoast The idea with mesh networking is that devices become routers that connect to other devices. Then, your device can be used to route information to another device, completely bypassing the more-hierarchical routing system that we currently have. Currently, devices all connect to a home router that then connects to an ISP router, which then connects to other business-ran routers. With mesh networking, all home devices connect to each other and, ideally, to the neighbors houses, etc. Freenet sits on top of mesh networks. It distributes the content between multiple computers, but it doesn't bypass the current routing system. · 1 year ago
@comatoast Freenet is a higher layer protocol, it requires an underlying network connection. A mesh network (with batman-adv, olsr, etc) is a layer 2/3 protocol that deals with routing the packets between routers providing that connection. A mesh network would be useful in case ISPs decide to go rogue and limit our access to information (in the worse case, seize to exist or completely block internet access) or even in a natural disaster where their infrastructure colapses. See it as a "parallel internet". The bigger the mesh, the more resources you can have (kinda like in gemini, the more people using it, the stronger it becomes) · 1 year ago
i've always wanted to but I am the only techie I know. I also don't understand them super well. Why not just setup a private freenet network or something · 1 year ago