right i found meshtastic.org through lemmy … and its a cool concept … purchase some hardware and join the network… download app… and you can do text communication… i was just wondering if there were more robust mesh networks with more capabilities than a text message. id rather just get prepared for when the rug is pulled out from underneath us and we have to get an anal cavity search just to check the weather.
There are a few metros around the world that have higher speed community networks (NYC Mesh, Freifunk, etc). If you get a HAM license, you could try participating in stuff like AREDN which uses modified WiFi access points. Depending on where you are, you’d likely have to start a group or club to start building out infrastructure.
Not OP, but I personally would like to see a mesh-based low-bandwidth HTTP alternative, like Gemini. A tool set for sharing things more persistent than text messaging (or ideally building other digital services with) while being compatible with the underlying lower performance hardware and wireless medium.
Http doesn’t have that much overhead (especially when you want to send things in the MB range)
What kinds of applications are you talking about? Are you thinking TCP/IP connectivity or something slower?
You can build a network mesh out of wireless point to point and 802.11s mesh networks. It is all TCP/IP networking so you can run any application you want over it.
To join you need to either have an established mesh network already (assuming you don’t want to start a ISP)
right i found meshtastic.org through lemmy … and its a cool concept … purchase some hardware and join the network… download app… and you can do text communication… i was just wondering if there were more robust mesh networks with more capabilities than a text message. id rather just get prepared for when the rug is pulled out from underneath us and we have to get an anal cavity search just to check the weather.
There are a few metros around the world that have higher speed community networks (NYC Mesh, Freifunk, etc). If you get a HAM license, you could try participating in stuff like AREDN which uses modified WiFi access points. Depending on where you are, you’d likely have to start a group or club to start building out infrastructure.
What exactly are you looking for?
Not OP, but I personally would like to see a mesh-based low-bandwidth HTTP alternative, like Gemini. A tool set for sharing things more persistent than text messaging (or ideally building other digital services with) while being compatible with the underlying lower performance hardware and wireless medium.
Http doesn’t have that much overhead (especially when you want to send things in the MB range)
What kinds of applications are you talking about? Are you thinking TCP/IP connectivity or something slower?
You can build a network mesh out of wireless point to point and 802.11s mesh networks. It is all TCP/IP networking so you can run any application you want over it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babel_(protocol)
https://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/Wiki
Edit:
I forgot about HaLow. It is lower bandwidth but it has a much longer range. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ah