[Freedombox-discuss] FabFi mesh network

[gleete@mum.edu (Gurdy Leete)]

Here's an example of a complete mesh network system that apparently can 
be built cheaply.

Afghans Build Open-Source Internet From Trash
http://www.shareable.net/blog/afghans-build-open-source-internet-from-trash-0

http://fabfi.fabfolk.com/

http://fabfi.fablab.af/blog/

Instructions for creating and configuring hardware and software, 
including servers, nodes and reflectors, are here:
http://code.google.com/p/fabfi/wiki/HowToMake

A New York Times article this weekend on subversive community 
communication networks 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/world/12internet.html> includes a 
photo of the FabFi Afghanistan mesh network.