Forget the Net - Bring on the Mesh!
• Mother Jones via Rense.com"...linking up a set of rooftop wifi antennas to create a "mesh," a sort of bucket brigade that can pass along data and signals. It's actually faster than the Net we pay for..."
"...linking up a set of rooftop wifi antennas to create a "mesh," a sort of bucket brigade that can pass along data and signals. It's actually faster than the Net we pay for..."
I'm no techie but, this sounds a whole lot more doable than one might think. It wouldn't surprise me if somebody at GitHub.com hadn't already built some software that could make this whole thing a lot easier.
If you look around the city, you find all kinds of old, abandoned, Dish antennas. Imagine revamping them to make your WiFi work across the country.