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"I'm just a farmer's wife," says Christine Conder, modestly. But for 2,300 members of the rural communities of Lancashire she is also a revolutionary internet pioneer.
Her DIY solution to a neighbour's internet connectivity problems in 2009 has evolved into B4RN, an internet service provider offering fast one gigabit per second broadband speeds to the parishes which nestle in the picturesque Lune Valley.
.... "It wasn't rocket science. It was three days of hard work." Her motto, which she repeats often in conversation, is JFDI. Three of those letters stand for Just Do It. The fourth you can work out for yourself.
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(Score: 1) by Francis on Thursday December 29 2016, @06:44PM
Heh, TL;DR eh? This is a BBC article about a woman in the Lune Valley LANCASTER ENGLAND.
TL;DR, could you summarize that with a car analogy?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by DECbot on Thursday December 29 2016, @08:06PM
Local car manufacturers paid for laws that state that all cars should place the driver on the left. The BBC wrote a story about a foreign farmer in a foreign land who built a car for foreign roads with the driver on the right and it works just as good as the left hand cars and it costs less to manufacture than what the local car manufacturers say it costs to build a car.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 29 2016, @08:57PM
We've had some previous related stories.
German Village Expanding Self-Built [fiber] Broadband Network [soylentnews.org]
...and, for comparison, when Wilson, NC wanted to extend their connectivity to nearby communities, the cabal of incumbent ISPs and the state legislature put the kibosh on that.
Are Peer-to-Peer Mesh Networks the Future of Internet Freedom? [soylentnews.org]
(If you don't have a bunch of peers, the answer appears to be "No".)
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]