Considering the amount of tech and self hosting types that live in cities, it seems like it would be popular to have little mesh intranets all over the place, but I’m not aware of any.
I read about NYC Mesh a while back, and I wonder if there are other similar things already in widespread use that I just haven’t heard about.
Hmm, just had a thought about getting this sort (meshtastic et.al.) of thing adopted more widely. People generally don’t need the full speed of their internet all, or even most of the time, they mostly buy a speed they can afford that makes their big downloads (e.g. games, updates, perhaps streaming) more tolerable. If a mesh system could aggregate a bunch of users connections they could probably buy cheaper plans knowing that when they need it they can have the speed.
Anyone knowledgeable in the ways of meshtastic or other such, does it, or anything else you know of fill this niche ? The wallet is always a good motivator…
Presumably ISPs etc would quickly make it against terms of service, but if there’s some bucks in it a lot of people won’t care…,