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Originally Posted by DaveOrion
In a perfect world this might happen but this aint it and this will never happen here. The powers that be wouldnt stand for that & in all fairness they paid for the servers & bla bla bla so I suppose they're justified in they're very limited amount of power. (as limited & superficial as that may be)
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I wouldn't say never. I could imagine a world where the religious conservatives clamp down on the Internet, banning anyone they don't like. Trying to turn it into a 'safe' Disneyland 'for the children'...
The solution would be to have your wifi cards and routers be able to act in ad hoc mode at the same time with your neighbors, and then they can connect to their neighbors. Speed would be an issue, and it would have to be brain-dead easy to use. The really hard part would be getting people to be interested enough in antenna design to point directional antennas at their neighbors homes that are far away.
It is an interesting concept to think about, what would happen is Egypt or Libya happened here and the internet was shut down, would we be able to covertly use wifi or would 'the Feds' be looking for or blocking anything broadcasting in the 2.4Ghz range.