Rushkoff proposes we abandon the Internet, and create something better

Re:Rushkoff proposes we abandon the Internet, and create som... by trotsky on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @03:43PM (#2068384)

I assume you haven't spent much time using mesh radio solutions - they have their uses for sure but their performance and reliability are very poor compared to traditional solutions. And even then most of them rely on backending on wired plant for longhaul.

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Re:Rushkoff proposes we abandon the Internet, and create som... by WiseWeasel on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @08:34PM (#2069411)

I have not, though I am aware of it. Perhaps the planned white-space open licensing would give us the bandwidth to address this problem, and the performance of such decentralized systems could be improved. If such an improvement is possible, then something like mesh would have a good shot at market success.

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Re:Rushkoff proposes we abandon the Internet, and create som... by wmf on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @11:07PM (#2069837)

In a given channel, 802.11 mesh networking provides roughly 1/7th the performance of non-mesh (and an ideal protocol only achieves 1/3) [1]; using more spectrum increases throughput but the waste is still there. Many people (especially telco lobbyists) would argue that spectrum shouldn't be wasted on such inefficient protocols.

[1] http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/grid:mobicom01/

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Re:Rushkoff proposes we abandon the Internet, and create som... by WiseWeasel on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @02:59AM (#2070317)

OK, plan B. First, we quantum-entangle a few million pairs of particles...

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