[Freedombox-discuss] Shaddi Hasan: Why wireless mesh networks won't save us from censorship

[The Doctor]

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On 11/30/2011 06:18 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:

> 60 GHz consumer wireless should come 2012, which with well-aligned 
> parabol sat dish boosting should be good for ~km LoS and have 
> negligible costs in comparison to today's 60 GHz gear yet give you
> about ~GBit/s worth of link which will only go down in heavy rain
> or snow.

You don't even really need that.  You can hit 10km pretty easily just
with wok-fi and fairly cheap 802.11b/g USB devices.  Sure, it's not
good for intra-mesh links, but for bridging two meshes it's ducky.

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