September 18, 2005

Talking in the Dark - New York Times

The pipe dream proposed in this piece is tempered by this single sentence tucked into the last paragraph. "Of course, a WiFi mesh wouldn't work if its users had no supply of electricity."

In a hurricane disaster one of the first systems to fail is the power grid. With power the WiFi mesh is a fine backup. Without it WiFi is worthless.

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