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Buy Broadband From Your Neighbor

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the at-once-separate-and-the-same dept.

infractor writes "Wired has an article about a wireless project delivering free broadband to a rural community. Using Linux based devices called meshboxes from Locustworld, they've created a local mesh network. More detail in this article. With Wi-Fi friendly ISPs talking about micro-ISP deals for wireless sharers this could be the accelerator UK broadband has been waiting for." Last year we mentioned the MeshAP-05, a bootable CD which "turns a single board computer or laptop into a mesh node and access point," since updated to MeshAP-06. Update: 02/13 19:52 GMT by T : I see from comments that -08 is actually the current version of MeshAP, with -09 soon. Thanks.

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  1. I'm in the money! by grub · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    I'm going to sue their asses off when all that wireless Kazaa traffic gives me a brain tumour!

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    1. Re:I'm in the money! by wiredog · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Mods on drugs. How the hell was that offtopic?

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  2. Re:Groovy. (wap) by $$$$$exyGal · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I have a friend who is currently leasing her Wireless Access Point to a neighbor. Saves a little money on the DSL cost ;-).

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  3. Re:telco's by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Brilliant point. Too bad you don't have the +1 Karma bonus so more people would read it.

    Maybe you should buy this "premier" slashdot account on eBay.

  4. Re:In Soviet Russia... by Saeger · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    The people in your little neighborhood mesh network are never gonna have the stuff you want.

    Yeah, I'm sure no one in my local area would have cached the latest episode of Enterprise, right? As it is, I have to swarm dozens of slow sources scattered across the globe, needlessly clogging up those distant pipes with redundant data.

    Wireless mesh networking will simply be a very very nice addition to the Internet as a whole -- smart, ad-hoc, wireless edges surrounding a wired core for the longhaul VS present-day last-mile bullshit.

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