[ale] All you Comcast fanboys...

[Horkan Smith]

Mike, I'm curious... what are you thinking in terms of RF layer and hardware?  802.15.4 stuff?

(No, I don't have any funding either; I've just been playing with a little ZigBee and Z-Wave stuff at work recently.)

later!
   horkan

On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 11:34:20AM -0500, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On 01/30/2015 12:55 PM, Pete Hardie wrote:
> > I always wonder if a mesh network via home wifi could work for
> > email/messaging traffic, although it does not solve for web access or
> > data download/streaming
> A medium-bandwidth mesh network with many nodes would work just fine for
> getting away from the current corporate-and-government dominated model
> of the current Internet.
> 
> We have the technology to do it today.  All you need is a small
> weatherproof enclosure, a method for harnessing solar and/or wind power
> (or come up with more interesting solutions... we're talking tiny
> hardware with tiny power requirements, and it might even be possible to
> derive enough useful power from the surrounding RF environment in some
> cases, such as when within a mile or two of a high-powered radio or TV
> transmitter), and the ability to communicate with the nodes within reach
> of it.  Only a small percentage of the nodes in the mesh need WiFi
> capability?or Bluetooth, or some other thing.  The mesh would be a very
> low power network where nodes could literally be tossed in the grass. 
> Make it just heavy enough that it won't get eaten by the lawnmower,
> robust enough to be stepped on or kicked, and have a hand-held tool
> (perhaps an app on a smartphone with a Bluetooth device that can look
> for the mesh nodes) for finding nodes and repairing breaks in the mesh.
> 
> One could go all /Twister/ and deploy the network off of the back of a
> pickup truck...
> 
> Alas, it's just a good idea.  I have no funding with which to do it.
> 
>     ? Mike

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