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but I dream of a day when everyone’s wifi router meshes with all the other routers in the neighborhood

A modern resurrection of the party phone lol. I remember those well.

Man it’s been a hot minute since I was in my ham shack as a kid banging out code on a little 5 watt transmitter/receiver. There are a good handful of repeaters in this area and they are quite invaluable when we have climate related emergencies, or other. During the pandemic I would listen to the chatter. They definitely serve a valuable purpose. The general public doesn’t really realize how these little ham shacks can be quite the boon in hard times and are usually surprised that they even exist.

There is a user here that mentioned he is in funding talks for a local, independent ISP. I’m not really sure I’m ready to be connected to my neighbors intimately. Good fences make good neighbors.

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ricecake@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You’re currently connected to your neighbors that intimately. Chances are a good chunk of your neighbors are on the same ISP as you.
What disconnect do you think a non-local ISP is providing that a local one wouldn’t?

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Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

There is a user here that mentioned he is in funding talks for a local, independent ISP. I’m not really sure I’m ready to be connected to my neighbors intimately. Good fences make good neighbors.

Why do you think an independent ISP would operate any differently at the networking level on a per-customer basis?

Good firewalls make good digital neighbors, and an independent ISP isn’t going to survive long if Alice can access Bob’s home network over the ISP without having something specifically configured in Bob’s network to allow that.

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- irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Oh I get how it would all work, I’m not into sharing my network. lol I did have to provision a separate vlan for my lady friend when she comes over so she can get her fill of all the advertisements she wants, but, there are direct benefits of such a compromise in this instance. ;)
  
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  - Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Oh I get how it would all work, I’m not into sharing my network.
    
    See, I’m struggling to think that you do. You’re not sharing your network with anyone. You’re just hooking your uplink into someone else’s network, who will take as much (or more, given how fucky current ISPs are) care to keep you and your neighbors from talking to each other without your own config letting it happen.
    
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    irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    At the risk of being a contrarian, why would I want to hook my uplink to someone else’s network, or vice versa?
    
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