Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Tibet's Mesh

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the free-tibet dept.

siriuskase writes "Volunteers are building a low-cost wireless mesh network to provide cheap, reliable data and telephony to community. I would love to see a free wireless mesh that's not dependent on any government or corporation take over the world."

4 of 82 comments (clear)

  1. Not quite what they were after, but... by dark_requiem · · Score: 2, Funny

    Finally, free Tibet!

  2. Damn Evil Monkeys! by PrescriptionWarning · · Score: 2, Funny

    Some of the technical challenges he faces are unique. This may be one of the only networks in the world where antennas must be monkey-proofed. "Monkeys are everywhere," says Ben-David. "Often, you'll see a huge, gorilla-sized monkey hang on to an antenna, swing from it, eat it, try to break it. We lost a lot of cables that way, but now we use very strong equipment so that even monkeys can't break it."

    Its the evil monkey in the close conspiracy to bring about the dark age of man, we can't let this happen! I mean just look at planet of the apes

  3. Well. . . by Slicebo · · Score: 2, Funny

    . . . here's another fine mesh you've gotten us into!

  4. Small Print by booch · · Score: 3, Funny

    With purchase of Tibet at regular price.

    (As an aside, I was hoping this was an article mentioning my friend's enterprise AJAX platform: TIBET.)

    --
    Software sucks. Open Source sucks less.