Random Theory

[kokanezub]

What If everyone had a wireless router that can receive and transmit allowing connections of other wireless routers and together created a Gnutella type network. Is this possible? We would be able to have a World wide web without a central server?

[mountain_rage]

There was a website I had read where they were attempting to build their own internet by doing this, but when there was a break in the network they would patch through the internet to complete connections. The goal was that cities would eventually be fully connected without the need for an ISP. Can't remember the site because it was a long time ago, but some people have conceptualized and attempted it.

[Boomer The Dog]

I love wi-fi, and this works, woof, over a small area, with mesh networking nodes. I wish
that there was more if it, the hardware is certainly cheap enough. There are a couple of
large LANs in Pittsburgh, but I don't know what happens on them.

One of the problems with wi-fi infrastructure is that the radio cell size is pretty small, so
you need a node on every block to relay the signal, and others for backhaul, a backbone
connecting several nodes to a main server/router. That can be a challenge, as city wi-fi
programs have found, but those city net programs have served thousands of users well.

I like the idea that One Laptop Per Child, OLPC had, where each computer acts as a node
that forwards messages for the others. If all of our wi-fi devices could connect to one
another like that using spare bandwidth, that might be the start of something better.

Weird to think it, but with the threats, we probably shouldn't be absolutely reliant on the
internet for communications.

Boomer

[kokanezub]

great feedback . Im Google-ing this as we speak.

The gnutella network works to where if one node disconnects,you are still connected to 3 or more. It is a "complex circuit"

With a Wi-Fi structure, would be like Christmas lights or "series circuit"

Mabey a multi source connection?