Like most people, Kim Thomas has a broadband connection at home that she uses to check email, surf the internet and stream music and video. But unlike most people , Thomas, 56, a program director for a charitable foundation in Portland, has no monthly bill. All she did was buy a router and rooftop antenna , which not only granted her free access but also made her part owner of the infrastructure that delivers the signal . Total cost: about $150.
Thomas is a participant in the Personal Telco Project, one of a growing number of community wireless mesh networks in the US and abroad. These alternative networks, built and maintained by their users, are emerging at a time when internet service providers are limited in number (some argue monopolistic ) and are accused of cooperating with government snoops.
A wireless mesh network is essentially a network of a bunch of interconnected wireless routers, or nodes, which propagate traffic between users and also broadcast broadband service from nodes that are wired to the internet. Think of it as a system of linked coffee shop hot spots where patrons at all the various coffee shops can send and receive data directly between each other's devices, as well as surf the web.
"Our approach is to build our own autonomous system," said Isaac Wilder, executive director of the Free Network Foundation, which within the last year has managed to construct a wireless mesh network that serves about 500 people in Kansas City, Kansas.
Perhaps the largest and oldest wireless mesh network is the Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network in Greece, which was started in 2002. The network now has more than 2,500 users throughout the metropolitan area.
Thomas is a participant in the Personal Telco Project, one of a growing number of community wireless mesh networks in the US and abroad. These alternative networks, built and maintained by their users, are emerging at a time when internet service providers are limited in number (some argue monopolistic ) and are accused of cooperating with government snoops.
A wireless mesh network is essentially a network of a bunch of interconnected wireless routers, or nodes, which propagate traffic between users and also broadcast broadband service from nodes that are wired to the internet. Think of it as a system of linked coffee shop hot spots where patrons at all the various coffee shops can send and receive data directly between each other's devices, as well as surf the web.
"Our approach is to build our own autonomous system," said Isaac Wilder, executive director of the Free Network Foundation, which within the last year has managed to construct a wireless mesh network that serves about 500 people in Kansas City, Kansas.
Perhaps the largest and oldest wireless mesh network is the Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network in Greece, which was started in 2002. The network now has more than 2,500 users throughout the metropolitan area.
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