[Battlemesh] International links between Austria, Croatia, and Slovenia

Michel de Geofroy micheldegeofroy at gmail.com
Sun Oct 21 11:24:05 UTC 2012


Paul will you be at the WBM V6 in Denmark?

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 3:15 AM, Paul Gardner-Stephen <
paul at servalproject.org> wrote:

> We are getting pretty close to having that sort of gateway/backbone
> connection working with Rhizome, so yes, the potential is there.
> Scalability becomes the biggest issue pretty quickly.
>
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 6:01 AM, Michel <micheldegeofroy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Cool
> >
> > In conjunction with piratebox Like drop box/relay or gateway to backbone
> it would kick off quite fast
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On Oct 20, 2012, at 20:51, Paul Gardner-Stephen <paul at servalproject.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Serval Rhizome is designed to make good use of Sneakernet type links.
> >> We can already do SMS-type messaging, file distribution (including
> >> offering software updates) etc via it.
> >>
> >> On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Michel de Geofroy
> >> <micheldegeofroy at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> If line of sight is not presently feasible encrypted tunnels should
> bridge
> >>> the gap or even physical carriers could use flash memory on phone or
> ssd
> >>>
> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
> >>> <hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 10/20/2012 11:49 AM, Henning Rogge wrote:
> >>>>> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Gui Iribarren <gui at altermundi.net>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
> >>>>>> <hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:
> >>>>>>> On 10/20/2012 02:29 AM, Henning Rogge wrote:
> >>>>>>>> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Paul Gardner-Stephen
> >>>>>>>> <paul at servalproject.org> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> WiFi long-shots from USA->Alaska->Russia->Europe should be
> possible?
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Only with really high towers or a relay station on the island in
> the
> >>>>>>>> Bering Strait.
> >>>>>>>> (its nearly 100 km of water if you don't have a relay on the
> island)
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> 125 miles/200km with 300mW wifi:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> http://boingboing.net/2005/07/31/defcon-wifi-shootout.html
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Ermanno Pietrosemoli et al [0] actually did a ~400km link on 2.4ghz,
> >>>>>> but those distances (including the defcon wifi shootout), are only
> >>>>>> possible because of the heights provided by generous mountains.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [0]:
> >>>>>>
> https://interred.wordpress.com/2007/06/18/ermanno-pietrosemoli-has-set-a-new-record-for-the-longest-communication-wi-fi-link/
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Exactly... I was more worried about "curving of Earth" than about
> power.
> >>>>
> >>>> If you're talking Alaska to Russia, you only need 40km links because
> there
> >>>> is
> >>>> an island in between, as well as a 600m peak right on the shore:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=alaska&aq=&sll=40.697488,-73.979681&sspn=0.559109,0.810242&vpsrc=6&t=h&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Alaska&ll=65.650349,-168.527527&spn=0.608111,1.620483&z=9
> >>>>
> >>>> And if you really need height, other parts of Alaska have 6000m peaks
> like
> >>>> Denali.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> .hc
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