In germany there's a movement called Freifunk.
The ambition is to build a community driven open Wifi-Mesh-Network by flashing low-cost routers with the Freifunk firmware. So these routers can auto discover their neighbours and then connects via the routing protocol called batman-adv to a mesh. If there's no neighbour router, batman-adv gets tunneled over the internet to connect to the Freifunk network.
It's an IPv6 network with gateways to the IPv4 internet.
The problem in Germany is, that on the country-side, there are a lot of dark holes by providing broadband internet.
Some villages has to connect with 64kbit/s. We have the year 2013..
What the people in these villages do is, they hire one big fibre and share it over the community driven Freifunk mesh network to gain broadband access to all the people in the village.
In Brazil, it is illegal to share Internet connection with neighbours, the fine is about US$ 4000.
Article from Brazilian newspaper "Share internet with neighbors can generate fine of up to R$ 8000": http://bit.do/illegal-to-share-internet-connection
"According to the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel), wireless networks can not exceed the perimeter of the residence of the subscriber and the signal can not be sold, regardless of whether or not to generate profit."
My father was threatened by Telecom here in New Zealand for this. They wouldn't provide broadband to him due to him being too far from the exchange and he made a passing comment about using his neighbours. They were rather nasty.
He lives rurally and his neighbour's house comes off a street that is considerably closer to the exchange. It's a rather odd mentality to refuse to provide something and refuse to allow a workaround that will still generate some revenue.
In germany there's a movement called Freifunk. The ambition is to build a community driven open Wifi-Mesh-Network by flashing low-cost routers with the Freifunk firmware. So these routers can auto discover their neighbours and then connects via the routing protocol called batman-adv to a mesh. If there's no neighbour router, batman-adv gets tunneled over the internet to connect to the Freifunk network. It's an IPv6 network with gateways to the IPv4 internet.
The problem in Germany is, that on the country-side, there are a lot of dark holes by providing broadband internet. Some villages has to connect with 64kbit/s. We have the year 2013.. What the people in these villages do is, they hire one big fibre and share it over the community driven Freifunk mesh network to gain broadband access to all the people in the village.