The More You Know: Building An ‘Internet Relief Kit’
Saturday 19 September 2009 @ 1:01 am | By Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano 5 Comments
This one’s a bit off topic but nonetheless important and interesting for all us internet addicts enthusiasts. Ever wondered how you’d connect to the internet in the case of disaster? Zombie apocalypse? Capitalist meltdown? You’re most likely not going to be saving lives, fighting thugs or hunting for food. Face it, you’ll be the local geek so you might as well help out.
The latest issue of Make magazine has details on putting together a Network Relief Kit to provide internet connectivity in the most extreme of situations. The total setup costs around $3,500 USD and bandwidth costs are pretty expensive at $3 to $6 per Megabyte of data transferred. You’re most likely not going to be buying this any time soon but doesn’t the fact that you now know how to visit Dark Diamond from inside your zombie quarantine zone make you feel a lot better?
[MAKE / Via Boing Boing]
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Abraham 'Velcor' Duarte
David 'KidKobun' Bruno
Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano
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Sol
I really don’t know those things.
As long as there is a way, the internet will never be ‘unloved’ :)
“What it matters is not how many nets you have saved, but rather the size of your latest rescue”
… gotta think on better slogans.
In any case, i will be making considerations towards this, thank you :D this can give way to wifi monopolization, post-apocaliptic style (and i want to be that person!)
more monopolies!!! Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Hope there is internet that works if some apocalypse happens.