If you want to connect to the Internet today, you need to connect to one of the major ISPs, such as Comcast, Verizon, or ATT. These companies are not exactly everyone’s favorites, but what if you could connect to the internet by connecting to a network of nearby computers instead? Well, that’s the idea behind mesh networking, a fascinating technology that could become much more mainstream, thanks to Apple’s inclusion of it in iOS 7. With mesh networking, every device on the network becomes a node through which Internet traffic can flow. If one person drops out of the network, the whole network won’t go down. A mesh network can be completely isolated from the Internet to create an internal network, although that likely wouldn’t be
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