Yeah, but Homer is an idiot, and while some right-wingers are probably idiots, most are reasonably intelligent. I think Homer is just a crowd-follower
Well it is true Homer is an idiot for the most part, I think he really is a genius at heart. He comes up with very intelligent statements once in a while out of the blue! I can't think of an example of this at the moment but I remember thinking this before.
Why not extend this idea and have each mobile device route traffic from other mobile devices to the base station, so if I for example was out of reach of the base station, but close enough to you then my traffic would route through you and then to the base station. It might add a few hops to get to where you want to go, but for a lot of applications this is just fine.
If every cell phone, pda, laptop, etc, etc. could do this it would quickly role out wireless communication without having to put up base stations everywhere.
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Why not extend this idea and have each mobile device route traffic from other mobile devices to the base station, so if I for example was out of reach of the base station, but close enough to you then my traffic would route through you and then to the base station. It might add a few hops to get to where you want to go, but for a lot of applications this is just fine.
If every cell phone, pda, laptop, etc, etc. could do this it would quickly role out wireless communication without having to put up base stations everywhere.