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The Open Source Internet Is Here (59:02) ~ Data Slayer(www.youtube.com)
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[-]JasonCarswell4(+3|0)

I was excited about this for the first 5 minutes.

Then the next 10 or 15 got so overwhelming with technical details that it became apparent you have to go hard core or not at all. There is not easy plug'n'play - not to mention there are laws restricting you.

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[-]x0x71(0|0)

Very interesting. He has a multi-medium mesh network relaying software he picked up from the open source community. The critical issue that he wanted to solve is that all the elements of the network that are non-commercial only work over local distances. And there aren't enough people using these local technologies to bridge up the eastern seaboard, much less across the US or across the Atlantic. So his solution was to add ham radio to the available technologies since it's accessible to individuals and can go distance.

Here's the problem I see. The networking software already supports ethernet based edges, aka the Internet. And he doesn't have control over how the nodes forward (I suppose, I didn't make it that far). Ham radio can do very little bandwidth. So if you add a ham edge to the network exactly zero traffic will get routed through it if ethernet is available. The ham could be handy if the Internet goes down. But the system will be unused and without stress testing until a 1:10k probability event.

Basically on the day to day, this software is still dependent on government and corporate controlled infrastructure. But he did chip the problem and that's how any solution has to start.

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