This can be useful for a variety of situations man made or natural.
Way to stay on the prowl.

buzzz bizz buzzz.
the old telephone modem.
there must be a way to use PC with the modem.
just link it to a phone and you have one to one internet.
thats if the phones are still on.
and there must be a way to use a mobile with bluetooth.
link't to a PC. and the mobile connects to a satalight.
in europ it may be posible to link to othere #rys satalights.
yes it would be slow.
but as it is sent to a second computer.
that computer then sends it to a second computer.
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thanks for the great resource. copy and pasted onto the HD.

I'd have to swing a vote on the Hamm radio side too when TSGD.
it would be a great way of communication. they are efficient and have long range capability.

www.open-mesh.com

All you tech heads should check up on Open Mesh for the purposes of a public, ad hoc network. The Open Mesh system is non-vendor specific, and is based on the same MIT code project that gave birth to Meraki.

You can take an Open Mesh radio, a Ubiquiti radio, an Anaptyx radio, or even some Linksys and D-Link radios, flash them with the Open Mesh firmware, and you are off to the races.

The Open Mesh system is a self healing, self forming, self configured mesh network on an 802.11a/b/g/n Single Channel Architecture (SCA). You can use gear with a single radio, where all user access and backhauling occurs on the same medium, or you can get dual-radio gear that provides user access on one radio, and backhauling on the other.

Captive portal is built-in to the Open Mesh system. You can customize the page using built-in templates, or create your own. You can also elect to use the Coova captive portal system. You can provide free access to users, charge a fee, provide vouchers, etc.

The Open Mesh system provides two separate SSIDs - a Public and a Private. The public network can be rate limited, allowing you to set the maximum upload/download speeds. You can enable AP Isolation, making it virtually impossible for wireless clients to talk to each other on the same network (to prevent local network hacks). The system keeps up with usage per client, and keeps track of their MAC addresses.

The private side can be configured to bridge to the local LAN, or run NAT to keep things separate. You can even specify a VLAN for the wireless traffic to run in. The private and public sides have separate passwords, and both use WPA.

The mesh can be fed by a single internet connection, or by many. If everyone in your neighborhood installed an Open Mesh AP on the same "network", then your mesh network would be fed by everyone's internet connection. If you get on the wireless, the mesh will dynamically route your traffic out the best internet connection based on network load, connection outages, AP outages, etc.

There is plenty more to look at, but I think I've said enough to get you interested.

To my fellow network engineers, I realize that there are far better solutions for wireless access available than just this... however the Open Mesh system seems best for the purposes of creating a far-reaching, public, ad hoc network. The network isn't vendor locked, the code is freely available, the gear to run it is very cheap (as little as $25!), and it works.

Now, if you are building out a commercial/enterprise wireless network, I recommend you take a look at Ruckus Wireless. They have some new technology that is turning heads and causing a stir in the wireless industry.

thanks for the encouraging remarks... i really do not know how this new world order game will end up but i intend to stand on a hill and face the evil winds with a brave face and know that there is like minds out there in the internet world.. thanks ATS!! DENY IGNORANCE..

It's back to Morse code.

This thread is the reason I love ATS!
Learning something new just blows billowing winds up my skirt

You know, even if the SHTF scenario never comes... an organically grown digital infrastructure built by the masses would give the telco giants such as AT&T, Comcast, and Level 3 a run for their money.

Just imagine if all the copper wires, fiber, and wireless links that create the internet was owned by no one person.