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NordVPN introduces Meshnet, a new feature allowing users to connect directly to other devices

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Skycoin Launches A Vision for the New Internet #Meshnet #Skycoin #Skywire #Synth

Skywire, a project born from the half decade long project Skycoin, is a peer-to-peer alternative network that takes control from ISPs and gives it back to the users. Peer-to-peer technology doesn’t require you to give up your identity and data to access content. Skywire provides a Blockchain-based decentralized network where you can browse securely and privately. With Skywire, you own your data.…

A mesh network is a network topology in which each node relays data for the network. All mesh nodes cooperate in the distribution of data in the network.

Mesh networks can relay messages using either a flooding technique or a routing technique. With routing, the message is propagated along a path by hopping from node to node until it reaches its destination. To ensure all its paths’ availability, the network must allow for continuous connections and must reconfigure itself around broken paths, using self-healing algorithms such as Shortest Path Bridging. Self-healing allows a routing-based network to operate when a node breaks down or when a connection becomes unreliable. As a result, the network is typically quite reliable, as there is often more than one path between a source and a destination in the network. Although mostly used in wireless situations, this concept can also apply to wired networks and to software interaction.

Both these apps are available and cross platforms.

They will allow you to maintain communication w/out wifi or cellular in a group of users by generating a small local mesh net.

This is important when going to protest events where communications can be impacted purposefully or in emergency communications when the communications infrastructure is damaged.

Distributed Net Communities Happening Right Now

Mesh networks help people stay connected while avoiding traditional internet providers. Motivation around the country for creating community mesh networks ranges from a desire for social justice, improved information access during natural disasters or just the need to experiment. A mesh network creates reliable and redundant wireless internet access. Instead of relying on a wired access point to the internet like a traditional network, a mesh network uses wireless radio nodes that speak to each other, thus creating decentralized wireless access points. Because a mesh network does not have to communicate through a central organization (like an ISP), if one node goes down the network will self heal — allowing service to continue without interruption. You are probably wondering, how is this different than your WiFi at home? For one, mesh networks are actually wireless. If you think of your at-home wireless router, it is wired directly to the internet. Within a mesh network, only one node needs to be hardwired. All the other nodes, of which there could be hundreds, do not require direct access to the internet, just access to the mesh network itself. This allows a mesh network to operate without laying new cable, or as a local network during a service outage.

Links for the communities in the article:

Brooklyn: Redhook wifi

Philadelphia: Bamboowifi

Baltimore: SMesh

Pittsburgh: Meta Mesh

Detroit: Digital Stewards

New York City: NYCWireless

Portland: Personal Telco

New Jersey: MileMesh

St Louis: Wasabinet

Houston: TFA Wireless

Seattle: Meshnet Project