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Create a free, WiFi network by tethering iPhones to all
other
iPhones in range. Each phone becomes a router, to
distribute
requested content to any other phone on the network.
content could be cached webpages, files, MP3s or
whatever.
For example, you're on the train and there is no
3G
network
coverage...however you still have limited Internet access
by
using the collective cache of all phones on the train.
They say in London you are never more than 100m away
from a tube station, well I bet in any major city you are
never more than 10m away from another smartphone.
(Of
course this all this could include android phones too.)
Benefits: No ISP. No contracts. No fees. No big brother
govt
hassles.
Drawbacks: limited content. speed?
P2P telephony
[xaviergisz, Aug 22 2012]
A good idea, but not a new one
http://www.quora.co...mobile-mesh-network
[theircompetitor, Aug 22 2012]
found this:
http://en.wikipedia...bile_ad_hoc_network
but it does not mention any application where this is essentially an ISP substitute [simonj, Aug 22 2012]
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Drawback - vested interests sending hit-men
after
you? |
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Probably possible, but very unlikely to be
popular with service providers. |
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I've thought about this decentralized network before. |
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8th of 7 - that's the idea...Telcos and ISPs are
redundant, dinosaurs of previous age. |
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Tell me more 21Q.. can it do what I suggested here?
And if so..why isn't anyone doing it? |
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This idea has been mooted a couple of times, usually by me. |
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I think it falls down on two points. Firstly, the distance that single wifi can work, if I want to call someone in the same carriage,that's fine, but if they happen to be in Timbuctoo, then maybe not. |
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Unless the train is in Timbuctoo itself, of course, but I digress. |
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And secondly, the billing system. If I actually wanted to bill those one thousand people who have each used 0.2p of my wifi signal cost/battery charge. |
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I'm guessing that's why telcos actually exist. Like lawyers and mime artists, some institutions exist so we can all despise them and not each other. |
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Let's say you have this network of commuters, and
now let's say you have users on the periphery with
real Internet access at Starbucks or the library or
work or whatever. This would allow the users to
collectively share such connections (and fail over
broken WiFi connections if necessary). Bun. |
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Isn't this almost exactly how the OPC (One Per Child) computer Full Mesh network works?
{Also, whatever happened to OPC? Is Raspberry Pi encroaching} |
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Microsoft actually did this exact idea with the Zune, but since they only sold one Zune (to me) there weren't enough to create a network. |
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au contraire, it was a network of one, ideal for recluses and the very security concious.... |
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not_morrison_rm, 1. you are not calling people you are sharing webpages 2. There is no billing system, it is a collective (did you miss the part where I said it was free?) |
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>1. you are not calling people you are sharing webpages 2. There is no billing system, it is a collective |
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Yes, but apart from that, I thought my points were entirely germane... |
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