How a group of neighbors created their own Internet service

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/11/how-a-group-of-neighbors-created-their-own-internet-service/

by kanamekun • 9 years ago

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bediger4000• 9 years ago

This is nothing but socialist communal action. The owners of the upstream internet service should cut them off.

Shame on arstechnica for reporting on anti-captialist socialist nonsense! Go back to Prague, you pinkos!

creep• 9 years ago

I read about this when researching meshnets about a year ago. Along similar lines, Portland has its own meshnet, but I am not sure if the project is still active.

https://portlandmeshnet.org/

So does Toronto, and some other cities I seem to be forgetting.

I find this idea really enticing, and it is a goal of mine to start a meshnet in my own city. Unfortunately, the subculture here is small and music-oriented, and the techies I know are all about business, and wouldn't be in on a project like this unless they could make significant cash. I have been offered some money to build a startup around this idea, but could find no suitable method for monetizing it that wouldn't sacrifice my ethical values and basic idea. So, one day.

DKnoll• 9 years ago

What is the point of that Catalyst 2940 switch?

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How a group of neighbors created their own Internet service

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