Wifi Via TV

Thing here about a grad student using TV signals to transmit wifi

Which has a mile range, doesn’t rely on line-of-site, works and is stable. This is particularly interesting for mesh-networking – which is looking like an increasingly vital step towards routing around authoritarian control (and corruption) of the web.

This is currently using “TV white-spaces”… but have you seen TV recently? It doesn’t deserve to live. It is so shite it’s gone beyond self-parody and is now this limping charade… drunk and masturbating in public, begging for it all to end.

Fuck white-space. We should just pirate the entire spectrum.

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As it happens, I’m looking for a new TV myself. The killer-USP? Wifi connectivity – the ability not to have to watch the patronising, infantile, emasculated dreck served up by broadcasters. We should just short-circuit to the better (and inevitable) long-term scenario – let the web swallow the entirety of last-century TV infrastructure.

I’ve gone away, and come back even more radicalised before – I am in no mood to give any quarter to any corporate/governmental collusion whatsoever, and I don’t think I’m alone.

[edit] meet the open-wifi movement