In Response to SOPA, Reddit Meshnet Project picks up steam
No offense to the "reddit meshnet project", but the last I checked (this could have changed) what they're proposing isn't possible with the team that they have right now.<p>There are a couple of problems:<p>1) They don't have a solid hardware platform to work on, and the feeling I've gotten from talking to some of the people on /r/darknetplan is that they <i>really</i> don't have the proper understanding of wireless tech to make something like this happen.  People are proposing cheap commodity wifi gear for this.<p>While it's certainly possible to do a very high density area with that, it's <i>certainly</i> not feasible to cover an area like a city, at least not without a considerable investment, and an understanding that network performance is going to be abysmal.  (And at that point, just use ham radio...)<p>(Something like what they're proposing might work in an office, not so much in a neighborhood).<p>So is a problem, but hypothetically you could just toss hardware at it until it went away.<p>2) It's the addressing, stupid.  <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/darknetplan/comments/m2nd5/its_the_addressing_stupid/" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/darknetplan/comments/m2nd5/its_the_a...</a><p>I am <i>definitely</i> the last person to discourage people from "doing it wrong" (<a href="http://thingist.com/t/item/4372/" rel="nofollow">http://thingist.com/t/item/4372/</a> - <a href="http://thingist.com/t/item/19766/" rel="nofollow">http://thingist.com/t/item/19766/</a> - <a href="http://thingist.com/t/item/21434/" rel="nofollow">http://thingist.com/t/item/21434/</a>), but people running this, prepare yourselves for the reality that you could fail.