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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:17:49 +0300<br>
From: Osama Khalid <<a href="mailto:osamak@gnu.org">osamak@gnu.org</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Slow Internet Connection and<br>
Inavailability<br>
To: Lars Wirzenius <<a href="mailto:liw@liw.fi">liw@liw.fi</a>><br>
Cc: <a href="mailto:freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org">freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org</a><br>
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On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 02:48:55PM +1200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:<br>
> One of the interesting things that _could_ happen is using a<br>
> reasonably dense network of freedom boxes to build a local network<br>
> which then gets gatewayed to the larger Internet. It might be a mesh<br>
> network, but until the problems invovled in those get figured out,<br>
> even one with static routings should be possible. It only requires<br>
> having enough boxes that can talk to each other over wifi.<br>
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I like this idea.<br>
<br>
It can work for a small group of peers that are close enough to be<br>
able to connect to each others through a high-speed wifi connection,<br>
but it's hard to apply for a city-wide group (and that is not a<br>
problem).<br>
<br>
If someone had 6 neighbors with 128kbit/s each they will all do pretty<br>
good in sharing their data.<br>
<br>
It will also solve the issue of traffic tracking because your requests<br>
can be sent through someone else's Internet connection.<br>
<br>
Is it possible to implement such a solution?<br>
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--<br>
Osama Khalid<br>
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<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div> </div><div>Have you considered including a routing protocol like BATMAN (<a href="http://www.open-mesh.org/">http://www.open-mesh.org/</a>)? I do not know the exact limitations of adhoc networks but I think this could help with multi-hop routing between local adhoc groups and to the Internet.</div>
<div><br></div><div>BTW I should introduce myself. I'm James Valleroy, not a Debian developer but I have been using Fedora for a couple years now. I work as a Software / Firmware Engineer and I would like to contribute where possible.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I actually started working on a similar project to FreedomBox just a couple months ago with a CS student. We are basically looking to build nodes to operate in a mesh network that could (conceivably) work alongside the normal Internet but run Diaspora and some of our own applications. One of our goals is to provide a viable alternative to ISPs in general. Anyway it was great to see that this project was picking up some steam and I hope I can contribute in some ways.</div>
<div><br></div><div>--</div><div>James Valleroy</div></div>