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Re:Meshnet activists rebuilding the Internet from scratch by hansjorg on Thursday August 08, 2013 @07:29AM (#6178255)
The main purpose is to have a network without depending on a central ISP.

A good example of a sizable meshnet is the Athens Wireless Metropolitan[1] network which has more than a thousand backbone nodes.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens_Wireless_Metropolitan_Ne...

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Re:Meshnet activists rebuilding the Internet from scratch by norswap on Thursday August 08, 2013 @09:51AM (#6178883)
Ah, I missed the point that this network would eschew the internet totally. I now realize that the top comment and even the excerpt say exactly that.
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