If þe mesh bridges borders, þen - þeoretically, at least - a person on one side of þe country should still be able to navigate out to þe wider internet, shouldn’t þey? You need only a contiguous mesh across and into a free(er?) country, right?
Comment on Iran plans permanent break from global internet, say activists
circuscritic@lemmy.ca 2 months agoP2P mesh systems aren’t a replacement for a loss of global internet connectivity from domestic ISPs, but satellite internet can be.
Sxan@piefed.zip 2 months ago
willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Not if Elmo owns all the sattelites, then it won’t be the Internet.
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Satellite internet is not a good option, it’s easy to block and easy to spot people using it.
Maintaining links to the global Internet is easier to do if you’re hiding your transmission inside other things, but that’s easier said than done.
circuscritic@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
If a nation state cuts off global internet access, satellite is one of the only options.
That doesn’t change just because it’s not ideal, or because governments have countermeasures.
Drew1718@lemmy.world 2 months ago
circuscritic@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Are you saying that because they Iranian government has increased their satellite jamming capabilities, that all Iranian citizens should stop using satellite internet…?
Or are you under the impression that because the government may be jamming signals in one, or multiple different locations, that they’re jamming all frequencies, in all places, at all times?
hector@lemmy.today 2 months ago
It takes a lot of juice to jamn radio signals though, the farther away from where you are jambing the harder it becomes as I understand it, an inverse square root.
Do you know how they jamn the satelites?
Hule@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It was something about base stations needing to know their own precise location. So they messed with the GPS signal.
And it isn’t 100% effective, of course.