There is some chatter over on Twitter right now about building wireless mesh networks as an alternative to the more centralized web services. We touched on that subject here briefly in the past, but it’s worth being explored in more detail. Does anyone have good links, info and opinions on the subject of staying connected in a world of potentially limited and centrally-controlled internet technology? Is there a starter kit somewhere with free and open-source instructions, theory and methodology for starting wireless neighborhood mesh networks?
My feeling is that there should be as many different solutions to this problem as there are neighborhoods. The best bet against the entire internet infrastructure going down is to have it broken up into many different and technologically diverse systems, so that one switch can not turn it all off.
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