A while back I saw a post about a kind of alternative to the internet?

It used some sort (what looked like) a radio system to create a network with other people who had this equipment.

There were a number of companies selling this equipment.

Trying to remember what it was. Does anybody know what I’m talking about?

  • bulwark@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Sounds interesting. I know there’s technologies like LorA and BLE that create networks on different frequencies other than what standard wifi uses. But they don’t really have a lot of bandwidth.

    Are you talking about Ham radio

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I was really excited for CJDNS (not to be confused with “Domain Name System”) at one time. It’s a mesh networking protocol. And they’d established an “Internet 2” (as in, a sequel to “The Internet”) based on the CJDNS protocol called “Hyperborea.”

    I haven’t heard anything about CJDNS in a good while now. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were other efforts looking to do something roughly the same, but I’m not up to date on anything more recent.

    • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      1 month ago

      They have their hotspots but for anywhere that there isn’t a hotspot coverage they do have T-Mobile coverage as backup and from what I understand they have unlimited talk text and 30 gigabytes of high speed data for $20 per month