Mesh networks are nice in some ways, and crappy in others. For example, for long distances, they're very slow, because the overhead gets added over and over and over again. Unless whatever device you're using can communicate for pretty long distances without being boosted (like, hundreds on miles), every cross-country ping would probably take seconds.
However, the throughput would be great. If you had some sort of scheme that randomly selected from closer nodes weighted by how much closer they were, you could potentially get thousands of nodes forwarding packets to you at the same time along many different paths from source to destination.
Long story short: ssh would suck, but downloading that mp3 would be zip quick.
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Mesh networks are nice in some ways, and crappy in others. For example, for long distances, they're very slow, because the overhead gets added over and over and over again. Unless whatever device you're using can communicate for pretty long distances without being boosted (like, hundreds on miles), every cross-country ping would probably take seconds.
However, the throughput would be great. If you had some sort of scheme that randomly selected from closer nodes weighted by how much closer they were, you could potentially get thousands of nodes forwarding packets to you at the same time along many different paths from source to destination.
Long story short: ssh would suck, but downloading that mp3 would be zip quick.