I'm thinking that messages would be sent from A to B using keys that
only A and B know about. So even if they went through the air, they
would not be decipherable (easily) by someone without the keys. Each
FBX simply becomes a "willing participant in the conduit" to move data
around without regards to its contents, unless it's addressed to it, or
as is required to route it.
My idea of having a wireless grid is not for heavy bandwidth, but merely
for the ability to communicate with others. I envision some need to
coordinate people together, to get the message out. It doesn't need to
be real-time updated, but just "meet us tomorrow at 6am at the corner"
sort of things. I also envision a texting-like ability, where you send
a message to X, and they respond when they get it, which may be a few
minutes later.
I have the entire method of working out how this WiFi communication
could be workably developed, including allowing FBXs to come up and fall
off the "grid" as a living entity.
I would like to produce the GUI demo to show how it works, what messages
are transmitted, etc. Will do so when I can find the time.
Best regards,
Rick C. Hodgin
On 06/19/2012 12:57 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: John Gilmore<[email protected]>
To: Rick C. Hodgin<[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 9:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Testing 2012.0617 Image Published
This is the path I'd like to explore for developing Freedombox tools --
the ability to communicate off the grid using point-to-point with routing beyond
to some remote 3rd party.
Are there WiMAX add-on boards which do the same (for longer distances)?
I strongly suggest using *wires* rather than wireless, whenever possible.
You can trivially push a gigabit of traffic through an Ethernet cable
that can stretch from one apartment to another, or from one house to
another along a fence. And this gigabit won't conflict or compete with
any other traffic you're handling to other neighbors, nor compete with
wireless nodes.
With a couple of readily available converter boxes, you can plug that
gigabit Ethernet into a fiber that can go to a destination up to 80km
away.
WiFi is sexy, but Ethernet (and Ethernet running over fibers) is what
runs most real dependable Internet services worldwide. If you share
your Internet connection with your closest neighbor over Ethernet, via
a FreedomBox, you'll unclog your wireless spectrum, and improve the
reliability and privacy of both of your Internet connections.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but until you hit a certain threshold in terms of
# of users and geographical variety, you'd be improving reliability at the
expense of privacy. Also, the lack of choice of ISP in many areas
may make the reliability increase insignificant, as an upstream outage
would most likely affect all the neighbors, too.
On the other hand, it would be quite interesting to see what a dorm full
of college students would do with a pile of Freedomboxes and a
spindle of ethernet cable.
John
PS: Wires and fibers are much harder to wiretap than radio signals.
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