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MIT Roofnet

Posted by michael on from the can't-use-the-fireplace dept.

prostoalex writes "MIT Technology Review runs a story about MIT Computer science students building their own mesh network for Internet access: 'A few weeks ago, MIT graduate student Shan Sinha canceled his broadband Internet service. Now his Net connection comes through the chimney. From a computer in the living room of his Cambridge, MA, apartment, a few blocks from the MIT campus, a cable goes into the fireplace up to the roof, where it is attached to an antenna. From there, data packets hop to another roof-mounted antenna at a nearby student's apartment. That way, from roof to roof in multiple hops, Sinha's data packets finally reach a gateway--a computer connected to the fixed Internet--at MIT's computer science building.'"

3 of 233 comments (clear)

  1. awesome! by barnacleez · · Score: 0, Troll

    sweet@!!! so own.

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  2. Just dumb by MrHyd3 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Too much time on their hands...wow sounds great..but? Must not have a life I guess.

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  3. In soviet russia wireless internet owns you. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It had to be said.