Want A Better Internet? Build Your Own

It turns out that building your own Internet isn't that complicated -- if you have the right materials. Assuming you don't want to dig trenches like the people in Lancashire, a mesh network may be the way to go: Android phones can be made into Wi-Fi antennas capable of "meshing" by installing apps like Serval Mesh. And cheap "cantennas" -- sometimes literally made of soup cans -- can extend the range of a DIY network hundreds of meters. - Betsy Isaacson

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