I heard in cuba gamers hooked up huge lan network basically making a new internet. This circumvents ISPs which is quite important considering 25% of the entire canadian mobile/internet network is down atm. (https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/rogers-outage-cell-mobile-wifi-1.6514373)

I'm also wondering if a p2p set up would be possible.

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[–] ailiphilia@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Mesh networks maybe? I'm not sure what you're looking for.

[–] pancake@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is a list including a few such projects.

[–] Aless246@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

thanks!

I contacted a few of them to try to help out

[–] Helix@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago

https://dn42.eu tries to create a huge overlay mesh VPN which helps you understand the underlying techniques for building a global WAN aka Internet.

In case of emergency one could certainly try to get DN42 running when central internet infrastructure is failing. Sadly, the peering points are mostly private ISPs and no big internet exchanges.

[–] SudoDnfDashY@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's I2P.

[–] Aless246@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

i read through the introduction on wiki and don't understand how we could use it without an ISP. Eli5?

[–] Beef@social.freetalklive.com 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@Aless246

There are a few mesh network projects that, when done well, function as an alternative internet. I worked on one but dealing with hardware and firmware was way beyond my skill set.

[–] Aless246@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago

I reached out to a few here: https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet#networking

and i'm hoping there is something easy i can do to help out