| US based only? A pity. People had a pretty good go at this in the early 2000s, when WiFi arrived on the scene. Most of those networks died and the ones that remain never took over the world [1]. The sticking points in the efforts that I was involved in were: 1) Hassle in obtaining and setting up the hardware (particularly permanent antennas). 2) Lack of density, meaning it was hard to find others to connect to. 3) Address allocation and routing never really worked out, due to the need for central coordination. I've been thinking about it ever since... Lots of ideas, but no 100% practical solution (yet). It'll be interesting to see what happens this time, after 15 years of further development. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_community_net... |