If they are wifi equipped, it could have limited success in high density areas, butthat is a giant limit and could not be considered www for sure.<div>Philipp<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:37 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dennisjperkins@comcast.net">dennisjperkins@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000">An interesting idea, but I don't see how to make it work. A wired
network still leaves us connected to ISPs like Comcast. A wireless mesh
network? That would produce mesh islands, not an Internet. You need a
backbone to connect them, which brings us back to companies like
Comcast. And what would the performance be like? What about security?
<br><br><span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/nyregion/16about.html?ref=todayspaper" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/nyregion/16about.html?ref=todayspaper</a></span></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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