Tunneling Internet traffic over FB chat

Re:Tunneling Internet traffic over FB chat by cheesedoodles on Saturday March 14, 2015 @07:29PM (#9204646)

This is really cool! In so many 2nd and 3rd world/poor countries internet is a luxury, as the price of bandwith is so high. Philippines for instance, a country that mainly provides connectivity through limited 3G and LTE, have a monthly price of about 30 beers from the local bar. In comparison, I pay around the price of 4-5 local beers, for 100/100 fiber.

Its sucks so hard that people cant afford to get knowledge from internet. Especially considering they would benefit greatly as schoolbooks are expensive and in some countries, censored.

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Re:Tunneling Internet traffic over FB chat by matiasb on Saturday March 14, 2015 @07:35PM (#9204670)

Hack author here, in my country, Paraguay, you get 10 MBPS for ~140 U$ per month. I discovered the Internet through my father, because he is a journalist and the press had really early access to this kind of tech, 20 years later I'm still crazy about it. Thanks for the comment!

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Re:Tunneling Internet traffic over FB chat by cheesedoodles on Saturday March 14, 2015 @07:39PM (#9204683)

Wow! Thats really expensive! Hard do access stuff often sparks creative ideas and solutions :) Keep on hacking!

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Re:Tunneling Internet traffic over FB chat by hobarrera on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @10:24PM (#9223219)

~70USD for a symetric 3Mbps static-IPv4/6 connection in Argentina.

I believe asymetric normal connections cost about ~40USD.

A beer is about 4USD, IIRC, if that helps the comparison.

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