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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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TOO BAD YOU CAN'T BUY a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin
real fast and freak everybody out.
-- Jack Handey, The New Mexican, 1988.
(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]