Wireless community network
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Wireless community networks or wireless community projects or simply community networks, are decentralized, self-managed and collaborative computer networks organized in a grassroots fashion by commun
The Freifunk-Initiative installing Wi‑Fi antennas in Berlin-Kreuzberg in 2013.
A cantenna connected to a One Laptop per Child machine.
A Patras Wireless Network (PWN) access point, the first city-wide wireless community network in Greece.
A volunteer installing a "supernode" of guifi.net. In July 2018 guifi.net had over 35,000 active nodes and about 63,000 km of wireless links.
Wireless ad hoc network
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A wireless ad hoc network or mobile ad hoc network is a decentralized type of wireless network. The network is ad hoc because it does not rely on a pre-existing infrastructure, such as routers or wire
Wireless community network
…Wireless Commons Manifesto. The two initiatives defined attempts to build an infrastructure, so that local wireless mesh networks could become extensive wireless ad hoc networks across local and national boundaries. In 2004, Freifunk released the OpenWrt-based firmware FFF for Wi-Fi devices that participate in a community…
A Stanford Research Institute's Packet Radio Van, site of the first three-way internetworked transmission.
Initial, large-scale trials of the Near-term digital radio, February 1998.