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Buy Broadband From Your Neighbor

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. You won't be able to by wiredog · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The TIA/RIAA/MPAA are putting Secret Coded Messages in the Kazaa traffic that's getting injected straight into your neurons allowing them to read and control your very thoughts to ensure that those thoughts are all in accordance with the accepted standards of the hard left freeper big government libertarian philosophy which they espouse!