900MHz packet (<$100/site) coupled with Plan 9 is the base you want to start from using current tech. It will require updating firewall software so that it also handles bandwidth throttling and fail-over routing. On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Ray Dillinger wrote:
In the long run, I don't think the machinery of freedom is going to work very well until most of the nodes on the internet have at least three or four different routes to the internet.
Unfortunately, extra phone lines and nailed-up connections cost money, and at that point they'd just start going for the phone companies instead of the ISP's anyway. The benefit is that common carrier anti-censorship laws might be a little stronger with phone lines.
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