In a warehouse basement in Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood late last year, a handful of self-taught network engineers gathered to casually discuss how they might make Time Warner Cable irrelevant in their lives.
Toppling—or at least subverting—a telecom monopoly is the dream of many an American, who are fed up with bait-and-switch advertising campaigns, arbitrary data caps, attacks on net neutrality, overzealous political lobbying, lackluster customer service, and passive-aggressive service cancellation experiences that are a common experience of simply being a broadband internet customer these days. The folks at NYC Mesh are actually doing something about it.
(Score: 2) by richtopia on Wednesday January 27 2016, @05:06PM
There has been a lot of work on this type of infrastructure, particularly in the developing world (cheaper to add towers than run copper).
There are a number of mesh networking protocols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_networking [wikipedia.org] that are designed for this type of application. However the logistical issues are huge, and many projects are nitch or a work in progress.
Here is a website dedicated to wireless networking in the developing world:
http://wndw.net/ [wndw.net]
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Wednesday January 27 2016, @05:47PM
There has been a lot of work on this type of infrastructure, particularly in the developing world (cheaper to add towers than run copper).
Nobody runs copper any more, it gets nicked.