iona 🐝
With recent announcements that #BT is cutting thousands of jobs, and Virgin Media is dumping hundreds of workers, isn't it time to bring something as fundamental to our future as internet access out of the hands of these sociopathic corporations and back into our own hands?
Rural community projects like B4RN (https://b4rn.org.uk/) are great - but the majority of us live in urban areas where we can't dig fibre under a farmer's field.
I'm more and more interested in #communitywireless.
Mayel - ghost account
@iona Check out https://www.libremesh.org/ and the existing communities #meshnetworks who use it.
iona 🐝
@mayel Local radio station Zest Liverpool seems to have stolen their logo http://zestliverpool.com/
iona 🐝
@mayel It is interesting, but it looks like it uses routers in people's homes which are connected to the 'net via existing ISPs.
Here in the UK, the ISPs are quite censorious - sites deemed to host "pirate" content are blocked, for instance. I think it's the same in a lot of EU countries.
I just love the idea of wireless networks beaming uncensored, open, people's internet, owned by its users, right over the heads of the existing incumbents. :)
Mayel - ghost account
@iona yes, that's the ideal endpoint of such a project, but this kind of mesh technology enables the bottom-up creation of a network (which can start with just two neighbors) and eventually grow the network to be big enough so you can plug into an internet exchange and completely bypass the ISPs!
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