Re: Mesh networking: the next big thing?

From	Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: Mesh networking: the next big thing?
Date	2014-05-05 15:30 -0700
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On 2014-05-05 11:33:59 +0000, RS Wood said:

> On 2014-05-05, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>>> Title: Why Mesh networks look like the wave of the future
>>> If you want to connect to the Internet today, ...
>> ... and you live in the USA ...
>>> ... you need to connect to one of
> 
> OK, fair enough - lousy, imprecise journalism.  Doesn't invalidate the
> subject as an interesting technology, though.  It seems likely if this
> tech becomes popular/useful, non-Americans would also be interested in
> it.

I really like the idea of mesh networking but for it to work there has 
to be some sort of anti-leeching technology to go with it, or else that 
one guy who just *HAS* to get the latest torrents will blow out the 
whole mesh to do it.  The other major problem I see is that the poor 
folks running the gateways to the internet will be shut down with 
extreme prejudice.  There is also the issue of rural mesh networking - 
how do you achieve any sort of decent signal coverage when you have 
maybe one node per square mile, or one per dozen or hundred square 
miles?

These are all technological hurdles which can be overcome with the 
exception of gating to the internet.  That problem is political and 
would take some serious changes in the way the USA operates to be 
feasible.  The ISPs would attack you for 'sharing' and the FCC would 
block your use of the spectrum right quick.

Meanwhile, there is amateur radio, which has had functional mesh 
networking for decades, and thanks to a new FCC rule that is likely to 
pass, we will have higher data rates on HF as long as emissions stay 
within a 3 KHz bandwidth (FINGERS CROSSED!).

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Mesh networking: the next big thing? RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-04 21:26 +0000
  Re: Mesh networking: the next big thing? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-05-05 09:53 +0000
    Re: Mesh networking: the next big thing? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-05 11:33 +0000
      Re: Mesh networking: the next big thing? Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-05 15:30 -0700

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