You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: Decentralizing the Internet - Helium
It also connects to existing WiFi connections, so I'm not sure how that's supposed to get away from the big IPs.
Nothing like offering up something free or reduced off the backs of others infrastructure (lol). Something tells me in the end free or reduced won't be so free and reduced when the lawsuits from the giants start flying.
Hey, @sunlit7.
Yeah, that will be interesting to see. I did do some more reading about that. The access to the internet is actually purchased through a wholesaler, so the folks before the giant IPs we deal with. I'm not sure what that costs, but my guess is, it's not what I'm paying a month. So, the more people they can sign up and help to offset the costs through their tokens, the better, I imagine.
re: infrastructure
Kind of like STEEM, where the witnesses set up their own servers? I haven't been able to find how much the antennas and cabling costs, but the routers are normal off the shelf types that get a firmware update.
At any rate, I like the idea of peer to peer, or a decentralized internet. Whether this is the solution, I don't know, but with each iteration, something's bound to work, which I think is more or less what whatsup's said. :)