Learning from Cows: Community Owned WiFi-Mesh
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> To take note of complexity is to let go of efficiency. When we take into account the intersectionality of approaches, when we look into each nuance more deeply, it’s only then we realise how intricate the threads of reality are
This article must be for acedemics. I can't understand it, probably because I am not in an acedemic in that field
> To do a thing correctly is to do a thing slowly. When you look deeper into most things you realize everything is complex in its own ways.
I think this is a translation.
doing things with other people slowly lets things get complicated and we don't think this is a bad thing, as it allows some failure occasionally."
I am clearly not the target audience of this article, though, as I find the coded language to get in the way of communication, rather than facilitate it. There might be people who feel a certain way reading those words to whom this might be aimed.
The only places that community meshes (wireless meshes without $$$) can work are mountains with cities below them or mega-cities where residents have access to the roof tops of their buildings.
There is no amount of power, no special modulation, nothing, that can punch through a slight hill or a valley. Your antennas have to be above the surrounding terrain to get a high data rate mesh to work. And for most places that means spending money to get access to rooftops or towers. Everyone just adding their node in their house, car, or as a phone is not going to do it.
tldr; the only thing that matters is height above terrain and that costs lots of money.
Balloons and kites work but they're much more difficult to control.