After watching this video I really think this is the future of the internet. I’m tired of paying such high costs to my ISP only for it to go down. Imagine always having a reliable internet connection at a fraction of the cost.

  • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    A municipal mesh network isn’t a bad idea, but I worry about what security measures are in place, effectively securing a wireless network with hundreds of independent stations feels like it wouldn’t be trivial.

    Probably the same as a WISP, since that’s what this essentially is. I don’t know about specifics of security, since they didn’t mention it.

    And surely this will need a WAN gateway to the internet somewhere, so it’ll only be as reliable as the route to that uplink.

    They have volunteer nodes that connect to each other and multiple super nodes that connect to WAN via peering and having transit donated by Packet.net and Webair. I don’t know what any of that means, but that’s what they said about how they are able to provide service.