-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/15/2015 01:21 PM, jim bell wrote:
Has anyone heard of an idea to use individual WiFi routers to communicate in a mesh net? (Or, at least differently than it may have been done before.) If you look at a map of WiFi routers (www.wigle.net) in any given area, you will see that the vast majority of routers are physically close to many other routers, certainly close enough to communicate with each other, and ultimately over a long distance. A crowd-sourced communication system, one that wouldn't necessarily go through the Internet backbone. Conceptually related to the Bittorrent system. I just found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Direct
A friend turned me on to this some time ago. I have yet to set up any mesh networks but it does look VERY promising. http://hsmm-mesh.org/ :o) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJV+gRWAAoJEDZ0Gg87KR0L55UP/0hIU5rXZbuw0hdLu2HzLiM8 ThqwIFN2r9hgQmrbmMAKoW6gRCKyllqR9Tdpzc6euP6cTdeIt8PYb37PTljCNKuj Ce/Jp0QsVbtKXUhww1MKOSVR5rARhxU5YfN6bjDN3Ivq6FKIXFwrSg2dXnq+DC3f XI56/TeBgRKKv6cZYHULFBCbsxfptf/26yhCMF83TbXxYLA+W262DHpVTi26s0xw 2lmuBpvyz7P9mCQcsM/PtJHPdkbY7OSdw9YahVaWcVvXcIFtLHCKvpUs+7E8SFHM BrgjRrC+Ti2aMwCdCRwp9T8YXD16JMbAld52n3TdHnNLNnwNYC4xYwliXOm1KYRq WFdVVYfL471otl5vjKMBx17NAkk0xr3acP0hetlP2hGCRV+mqFN4id/QlwkMhpcZ Ff68yekEPsVtDbqWeD5YqZQTQgVBJBvlZCOTUtlxrLpmt1LKiyuwjKL9awfxJfvu aI4MWxb3wHaU86GU0JVG8dyeRlQEuEMAgtSq8V1ha6BVw+HT+dWxVXFioNegBOwp p1IgfLo3A7PJ7kB8XrPDzMQ5vdIvTqDnl/yotCU66qZPL/Je0HdMlQ5j3ROJFbG2 5RBaIGQ4ii2ep6Ku+EnRJmk021Zp59o8dCM00vLBNvFMIk7cmDvhUH7uylq1uBjO JR6lo32GZPfKXfK5D97I =HR+9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----