A few years ago I was in Athens and some tech guys introduced me to the idea of wireless community networks. I was amazed at what a few people had achieved with just directional antennas and a few ADSL lines, back when broadband was almost non-existant in Greece. They called it the Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens_Wireless_Metropolitan_Ne...
Today they have 1120 backbone nodes, 2900 client nodes and another 9000+ people that have expressed interest in joining the network.
Today they have 1120 backbone nodes, 2900 client nodes and another 9000+ people that have expressed interest in joining the network.
Apparently this is happening all over the world. Wikipedia has an extensive list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_community_netw...
We need this super wifi thing in the hands of those people.