Mesh networking from Mitsubishi

By at 7:02 am Friday, Aug 2

Mitsubishi has announced MOTERAN, a mesh wireless technology "that is self-organizing, decentralized, and capable of reconfiguring itself without the aid of access points and access servers."
As a result, any one of these devices could be the host for Internet access: One person subscribes to an ISP for $20 per month, and everyone can hop across devices until they reach that host and log on.

It reminds me of the '60s when everyone's goal was to defeat the "establishment" through fairly harmless guerrilla tactics such as not putting a stamp on the envelope when paying a Ma Bell phone bill. Is this more dangerous? The ISPs might think so.

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