Re:Sudan woke up without Internet
by diggan on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @07:15AM
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Yes! Mesh networks with WiFi radios are particularly interesting as there is prior art[0] and also uses unlicensed spectrum so it's very easy to join the existing communities. Simply see (literally) who you have a line-of-sight to, setup your antenna, start peering and you're connected!
It had direct line-of-sight to a node 3.8 KMs away, latency was excellent all the way to Barcelona via Guifi (think it was under 5ms) and would do again if I move to a place with higher elevation.
I used to run the following node on Guifi: https://guifi.net/node/102135
It had direct line-of-sight to a node 3.8 KMs away, latency was excellent all the way to Barcelona via Guifi (think it was under 5ms) and would do again if I move to a place with higher elevation.
- [0] Guifi(https://guifi.net/), Freifunk(https://freifunk.net/), NYC Mesh(https://www.nycmesh.net/) and more