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Open Source: PittMesh routers are owned by individuals

From opensource.com - May 9, 2016 11:56 AM

PittMesh routers are owned by individuals and configured in a way that make them work together to build a larger, decentralized network.

PittMesh is a new community-owned wireless network that runs OpenWrt, a widely supported, well documented, open source firmware for embedded systems like WiFi routers. PittMesh routers are owned by individuals and configured in a way that make them work together to build a larger, decentralized network. The project was started by a wireless networking non-profit called Meta Mesh and has been developed by a world-wide coalition of programmers for well over a decade.

The PittMesh network uses a simple network routing protocol called Optimized Link-State Routing (OLSR). This protocol automatically senses other OLSR-enabled routers wirelessly and publishes routes to non-adjacent subnets on the network, which allows the routers themselves to act as the infrastructure needed to connect neighbors to one another. It also delivers Internet access from bandwidth donors.

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Personal P2P Mesh Network: Share Mobile Access From Your Smartphone To Any Computer

From vimeo.com - June 12, 2012 7:39 PM

(Reuters) - "Travelling and looking for Internet access?

A new smartphone app allows users to share mobile Web access for free with other people nearby who have the same app.

Called Open Garden, the app forms a mesh network that enables each person connected to it to relay it to other users.

"Every smartphone is a computer and a router, so we thought it was the right time to interconnect all of these devices together to make general access more ubiquitous," said Micha Benoliel, co-founder and CEO of the San Francisco-based company Open Garden."

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/11/uk-app-sharing-idUSLNE85A00U20120611 ;

From Lifehacker: "Open Garden is both a Wi-Fi tethering app and a mesh network. Install it on your Android phone and you can use your mobile data wirelessly on your Windows or Mac laptop, as well as Android tablets.

Not only that—you can piggyback on others' mobile connections.

Once you've installed the app on your phone and the client on your computer, Open Garden will run in the background managing the connection over Bluetooth.

The Android app shows you all the devices connected in Open Garden, as well as the data being transferred.

Open Garden supposedly sniffs around for other devices using Open Garden and will manage the best way for yours to get online."

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5915859/open-garden-shares-your-and-others-mobile-internet-access-with-your-laptop-and-tablet ;

Available for Android, PC & Mac.

More info: http://opengarden.com/ ;

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Toronto Gets Its Own Free, Encrypted Mesh Network

From motherboard.vice.com - May 8, 2016 10:43 AM

Free internet for all.

Meshnet networks, or meshnets, are a form of intranet that doesn’t require a central router point. Instead of emitting from a single point, they’re distributed across an entire system of nodes. Accessing one is free—and doesn’t require the services of a telecom.

Lau had spent the previous summer chatting with other meshnet enthusiasts in Europe, trying to figure out the best way to set up routers across the city. He suggested it was time to give it a try in Toronto. What grew out of Lau and Iantorno’s meeting, four months ago now, was a plan to build a meshnet in this city—one where users wouldn’t need to worry about eavesdroppers, because it would be encrypted.

When it’s finished, Toronto’s first free-to-use meshnet should provide an accessible and secure internet community, maintained by locals keen on becoming digitally self-sufficient. Those early adopters could reshape our relationship to internet providers, and cut monthly rates out of the picture.

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"If you're depending on someone else to set up everything for you, then they're in control."

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