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Absent from the conversation is the actual obvious generational shift: final-mile mesh networks in every sufficiently large and dense community.



not a mature technology. how would the mesh be established? run ethernet cables between people's homes? have everyone open a port on their wifi router? this is beyond the technical capability of the vast majority of people. it would require a company to coordinate this, and at that point you've got just got an ISP running the last mile anyway.


Some work on these issues is being done by the Free Network Foundation, https://thefnf.org/

Edit: There's also Guifi.net in Spain, http://guifi.net/en


cool! thanks for the link.


True, but neither are municipal broadband ISP's a mature organizational model. In both cases, we have a few plausible examples, but much more work is needed to verify their viability.

For my eye, I think that CJDNS is the most likely of the current candidates to emerge as useful for this sort of implementation.




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