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by jacobush 2535 days ago
I read about a project once - maybe anyone here can help me find the name of it again. As I recall:

- popular in Europe, particularly Germany or the Netherlands?

- some kind of mesh routing, but connected to the Internet

- reports of people using it having better connectivity to the Internet at large than just by connecting to their ISP unaugmented. If I recall correctly, this was because the "magic" mesh detected routing problems (such as censor blocks) and routed traffic through other nodes

Did I dream this up or does this ring a bell with anyone?

2 comments

Hi!

Think Freifunk[1] is what you're looking for, it's rather cool in anycase!

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freifunk

It is rather cool. But I don't think that was it. Maybe it was http://guifi.net/en/ which seems similar to Freifunk.
You might have been thinking either of cjdns or Yggdrasil https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/