Has meshnet/gternet been abandoned?

has meshnet/gternet been abandoned?
i remember there used to be threads all the time but now i cant find any

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It's a DOA idea, there is no way it could happen on any sort of meaningful scale.

Did someone at least make a logo?

if by logo you mean shitty MSpaint meme level shit, sure there were several. Look through an archive, the threads should be around.

i live in an area with unreliable cable/phone/internet in bad weather (read: winter)
i want to at least set up a local meshnet so that neighbours can all communicate despite no internet, in case somebody has an emergency so others can help and to otherwise stay informed when tv news isnt available
we had a lady die last week because cable went out before she could find out the temperature would be sub-zero and go stock up some more kerosene
dont want that happening again

You can't afford it.


The easy option is p2p radios, but those aren't cheap to get set up. And require line of sight.

Expensive and most robust solution is to run your own fiber network, or if the distances involved aren't too large, p2p ethernet.

why the fuck are you assuming i cant afford it
i make 6 figures in an area that has both an extremely low cost of living because nobody wants to live here and also has nothing to do to ever spend that money on
let alone any locals who want to contribute labor because everyone is really upset over this
my bank account is bursting here, just humor me user

our area is set up into several small (8 - 12) house "blocks"
those houses are close enough to run some fiber, not too sure about how well plain ethernet performs at >300 feet but maybe it could work
as long as it can reliably support irc at a bare minimum it can work, ideally we would want to support low to mid quality voip

problem is connecting all of the "blocks" together
the distance between them is at least 1 mile, usually more
then there are the people that dont live in "blocks" and just have a house in the woods, that's how the lady who died lived
they are about the same distance apart from other houses as the "blocks" are, so 1 mile or more
but they can be a problem because you only get to connect 1 house for the same cost as connecting up a block of 8 - 12 houses, so we get significantly less for our money

>neighbours can all communicate despite no internet
For simple text messanging lora is a good idea.The modems are cheap and you can cover a large area while keeping everything legal (if you care about that sort of thing).

just took a glance at a few parts of the website, seems like a possible solution. 30 miles range will give us quite a bit of flexibility
estimated cost per unit/radio/whatever they actually are? i havent read that far in yet and have work soon.
as far as legality, its pretty lawless out here
we dont have any regional authorities, police/inspectors dont venture out here unless you call them in and it can take over an hour to get here from the nearest town
if the community here decides to do something there isnt a whole lot anybody else can do about it

>so we get significantly less for our money
That brings me right back to
>You can't afford it.

wanting to be smart about spending != unable to spend

>30 miles range
I got over 150km range at 300bps from a mountain top.I used a 100mW module with sx1278. 100mW modules are around 5$ a piece and 1W modules are around 10$.An entire 100mW node (mcu,rfic,battery, and enclosure) cost me about 20$.
I recommend a chink company called "nicerf". They have the best workmanship I've ever seen with chink rf module companies and they're very flexible with prices.

Do you live in Russia user?

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nah, us of a friend
jesus, what is involved in getting these things running?

alaska?

i cant go any more specific than united states, sorry fren

>jesus, what is involved in getting these things running
A cheap mcu (I use pic12f1822) and a few days to examine the rfic datasheet.Btw the most user friendly lora rfics are sx1261 and sx1262.They have less features but they are much simpler to command than sx1278 and sx1276.The prices are the same.

imagine being able to abandon isps by building our own wireless mesh network

basically ham radio except a computer network

thats a neat concept
would be low bandwidth as all hell, probably couldnt handle anything more than text communication
but then perhaps that would be better in the end
a network were you cant download porn and tv shows in the blink of an eye, where doing so requires a significant portion of usage time
a network where people arent mindlessly glued to youtube and social media
a network of dialogue and ideas
not mindless mass consumption, but on quality content
kind of like the dial up days, i guess

unironically based and dial-up pilled

also, a peer-to-peer low-bandwidth mesh network would encourage the use of bittorrent to save bandwidth. so everyone would collectively seed content.

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If you can get a line of sight / free fresnel zone you can do it pretty cheap with ubiquity equipment.

If you scale that you will and with people providing high bandwidth, high range links. You need to setup some points where you exchange data between the segments. You need routing protocols and something to manage the ip distribution. At that point you're building the internet. People here somehow don't know that the internet is a mesh of independent networks who connects to each other.

if enough people participated in the network, only a few people would need to keep their cable modems in order for everyone else to communicate with the outside internet. perhaps stations could be set up at central institutions like universities where if one needed to access something on the internet, like 8.8.8.8, they just route their traffic to whoever has a cable modem. the BGP/EGP routing protocol(s) could be used for routing

>a network of dialogue and ideas
>quality content
>kind of like the dial up days
oh yeah because bbs was just full of high-brow discussion
fuck off lol

>something to manage the ip distribution
IPv6 auto configuration
no dhcp server & problem solved

>only a few people would need to keep their cable modems
We call them ISP at the moment.
>perhaps stations could be set up at central institutions like universities where if one needed to access something on the internet
Internet exchange
>BGP
Literally the internet.

>IPv6 auto configuration
You need a routing advertisement daemon who sends out prefixes for that to work. Those prefixes needs to be distributed. And just using a random address doesn't scale for routing reasons.

Why not just use Walkie talkies? Genuine question.

It's a retarded idea when GNUNet already exists. All Jow Forums had to do was fork and improve it, and make documentation.

Just werks so not Jow Forums approved.