Every station an ISP, 1++ vote Ray Dillinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Jim Choate wrote: > > > > >900MHz packet (<$100/site) coupled with Plan 9 is the base you want to > >start from using current tech. It will require updating firewall software > >so that it also handles bandwidth throttling and fail-over routing. > > > I've looked at that, but I'm unsure about it... the problem is that > if not enough people have it you're out of range - but if too many > people have it, you're choked for bandwidth and get interference > problems. > > With a range of a few hundred feet to a few miles, routing can also > become problematic. > > It would be nice though: a $100 'packet box' for each station, that > allows you to set up independent IP connections with your neighbors. > If you can get them common enough, it would be impossible to cut > someone off by cutting their ISP access -- 'cause out in the wild, > a packet is a packet is a packet, and if all the stations run IP > protocol, even if every ISP in the world rejects a packet, it could > still make its way across any continent in short hops from station > to station. > > And this is not just an anti-censorship thing, either; this is > more properly a tool for 24/7 uptime for people who can't afford > t3's and can't get PacBell's attention to fix their damn line in > the first minute after it goes down. I can picture that sales > pitch appealing to a lot of home businesses who get cut off from > their DSL connection for a week at a time while PacBell pulls its > head out of its collective ass. Or Cinci Bell, or Southern Bell, > or NTT, or Deutsche Telecomm, or whoever serves their area. > > I like it. Every station an ISP. > > Bear > > ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
