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Post by RaquelAN on May 16, 2012 22:26:29 GMT -8
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Post by ayolov on May 17, 2012 9:09:34 GMT -8
Interesting
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Post by candy on May 17, 2012 13:03:02 GMT -8
Thanks for that Raquelan - will have to pass this info my friend who is a computer-geek, so he can decipher it into a practical application for this 'low-tech' geek !!
In the second link you posted, there was this additional info someone called 'Fester' posted :
POSTED BY : FESTER QUOTE: RE: Get Internet Access When Your Government Shuts It Down
I guess I'm not surprised PC World neglected to mention this but a global replacement/backup solution to DNS censoring exists. DNS (Domain Name System) is how the system is currently censored by the Military Industrial Complex which as we all know is completely outside the law.
"The Cesidian Root is an independent root (or Internet) that was started by the Governor of the UMMOA on 30 September 2005, and for the benefit of Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Worlders who wish to utilise this resource for reasons of independence and/or national security. VIPs and DNS technicians also utilise this root for the same or similar reasons, and we hope to provide our services to jurisdictions worldwide in the future as well."
www.cesidianroot.net
There is also the BATMAN. Better Approach To Mobile Ad hoc Networking which has taken a huge step in functionality with the newest Linux kernel (3.x).
www.open-mesh.org/
B.A.T.M.A.N. combined with systems like the new Raspberry PI (http://www.raspberrypi.org/) and Gigabit wireless (http://www.ubnt.com) could change everything. Fiber backbones will always be in the hands of the elite, as long as they exist, but their necessity is diminishing every day.
Just my $0.02
I see a whole new global system based on a loosely organized team of privacy minded individuals in the not-so-distant future. UNQUOTE And THIS - also by FESTER : QUOTE: Other than the daihinia.com service mentioned in the article and the lack of mention for BATMAN the article is pretty informative in my opinion. Daihinia can probably be shut down centrally making it less than ideal imho. But I could be wrong. Still, why pay for something you can get for free with a little more study.
The pirate box is similar to what I envision for the replacement of not only local networks with mesh protocols but also long-range backhauls. The cheap Ubiquiti radios, and no doubt others, have ranges of many miles and are dirt cheap already. I've made connections over 15 miles (not kilometers) away with radio/antennas in the $100 range. The record was over 100miles last time I checked (using a recycled 12 foot dish). They also run on only a few watts of power (4w for the one that hit 15miles) easily making them off-grid devices with a minimal solar/battery investment.
So what's preventing us from bridging residential locations and even cities together? We are. A personal goal of mine is to provide free Internet to all of the local towns and cities in my area and with BATMAN this is very close to becoming a reality for town #1.
The best features of BATMAN include bonding and bandwidth throttling at each device. This means that everyone on the network has the potential access to the sum of the "speed" at all of the gateways on the network segment (all participating radios). So if you have 5 people with 10megabit DSL links you have a total bandwidth 50megabits available at each. No ISP that I know of can (or will?) currently do that. Lmao
I guess David Daw, the "accidental expert in ad-hoc networks" in the article forgot about that. chuckle
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