Sounds like another FON competitor. All these fools don't get anything requiring "WiFi" has to be fed from somewhere? The only point of this is to support wifi freeloaders. If an area has no Cable/DSL in the first place how the hell do you plan to have wifi? T1s, at $13 per 56K of bandwidth assuming a CHEAP T1 of $350 a month? Dialup is cheaper.
Intranets? Lets set up a wiki for each mesh, that has no connection to outside word. Now we sound like the internet in Burma »
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My ··· Wide_Web ?
Either the govt allocates high power 10s/100s of mhz of bandwidth of these internet services or anything wireless is useless. Usually if a area doesn't have broadband, it will have poor Cell coverage since Cell companies will see the same reasons to no deploy as DSL/Cable. Wimax will come LAST to the areas that don't have DSL/Cable. If my friend who has no Cable/DSL, also doesn't have Sprint cell coverage right now, why on earth would he have Sprint Wimax? Verizon and Sprint aren't done overlaying EVDO for christs sake, why does anyone think Wimax will solve anything? Anyone have a solution other than forced by govt/done by govt buildouts?