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UncaRay · 10-09-2008, 01:23 PM

Actually there are several plans for keeping "the Internet" up despite disruptions. Currently the Net is very vulnerable to Government, and Corporate control. This is because it is hardwired and these entities own both the wires and the switching facilities. The following suggestions are just me speculating on some of the ways you can get around that and create a resiliant internet. I hope anybody reading this who has some real expertise on the subject would share it with us.

1. As long as phone/cable lines/satellite system continue to function, use the Internet as a neighborhood communications system with people you know face to face. Set up your own dedicated server using free software available on the web, and you can use it to create your own neighborhood internet, that will function as long as electricity and phone lines remain. The Internet began with text only, a very fast and low bandwidth approach to communicating that has the advantage of leaving a text copy of the conversation available to many readers at once.

2. Consider stringing your own phone lines in the neighborhood, or alternately, getting a Wifi broadcaster with boosters.

3. More speculatively, if the commercial internet goes down, it will be conceivable that millions of these "Neighborhood Internets," could interconnect to form a kind of "cloud internet," Nodes could be connected by radio.

4. A fully "Wireless" internet, using technology available to average folks, might be cobbled together from thousands of UHF (I'm assuming UHF is good for digital signals.) Broadcasting stations and receivers that would form "nodes" available to users. This would have to be a major project undertaken by individuals to set it up. On the other hand it would be completely under "The People's " control.

5. One of the advantages of the Internet is the amount of accessible information available on it. You could pick a subject and download all the information on it and store it on removable hard drives. If the Net went down you would still have the data, and could share it with others.

Anyone else care to add some ideas?

10-09-2008, 01:23 PM	#15
UncaRay Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Cosby, Tennessee, USA Posts: 20	Re: Internet Actually there are several plans for keeping "the Internet" up despite disruptions. Currently the Net is very vulnerable to Government, and Corporate control. This is because it is hardwired and these entities own both the wires and the switching facilities. The following suggestions are just me speculating on some of the ways you can get around that and create a resiliant internet. I hope anybody reading this who has some real expertise on the subject would share it with us. 1. As long as phone/cable lines/satellite system continue to function, use the Internet as a neighborhood communications system with people you know face to face. Set up your own dedicated server using free software available on the web, and you can use it to create your own neighborhood internet, that will function as long as electricity and phone lines remain. The Internet began with text only, a very fast and low bandwidth approach to communicating that has the advantage of leaving a text copy of the conversation available to many readers at once. 2. Consider stringing your own phone lines in the neighborhood, or alternately, getting a Wifi broadcaster with boosters. 3. More speculatively, if the commercial internet goes down, it will be conceivable that millions of these "Neighborhood Internets," could interconnect to form a kind of "cloud internet," Nodes could be connected by radio. 4. A fully "Wireless" internet, using technology available to average folks, might be cobbled together from thousands of UHF (I'm assuming UHF is good for digital signals.) Broadcasting stations and receivers that would form "nodes" available to users. This would have to be a major project undertaken by individuals to set it up. On the other hand it would be completely under "The People's " control. 5. One of the advantages of the Internet is the amount of accessible information available on it. You could pick a subject and download all the information on it and store it on removable hard drives. If the Net went down you would still have the data, and could share it with others. Anyone else care to add some ideas?