[Berlin-wireless] Alternate radio internet network

Julius Hamilton juliushamilton100 at gmail.com
Sa Mär 26 19:07:54 CET 2022


I don’t know, I’m a beginner.

You’re suggesting I get a HAM license or something?

Thanks very much,
Julius


On Sat 26. Mar 2022 at 17:31, Loria <Loria at phantasia.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> which frequencies do you intend to use ?
> If you are no HAM , you will be restricted to very few frequencies ..
> (ism bands)…
>
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> Am 26.03.2022 um 12:27 schrieb Julius Hamilton <
> juliushamilton100 at gmail.com>:
>
> 
> Hey,
>
> I would like to explore creating a network protocol for small transfers of
> text.
>
> I want to create an absolute restriction that every transmission in the
> network must occur in less than 0.1 second.
>
> It could be more or less exactly like HTTP in that you request pages from
> other servers but somehow in the protocol it’s enforced that the time for
> any request to be served has to be under 0.1 second. This may require
> people to load balance if their server is very active or to reduce the
> amount of data they serve on a request or something, whatever necessary to
> meet this time limit.
>
> I think the internet as it is can support this, i.e. the network
> transmission tends to be reasonably fast, it’s more like web servers that
> might take a while to respond, depending on whatever backend scripts they
> run.
>
> But I’m also interested anyway in an alternative internet not dependent on
> commercial infrastructure, sort of like peer to peer radio networks,
> similar to modern ham radio clubs, but using that as an internet protocol.
> In other words, not even being connected to the main “internet” at large.
>
> So I guess I have two questions.
>
> 1. Are there any pre-existing technologies that come to mind that I could
> model this off of or borrow from? Is there any internet protocol where
> speed is so essential to the functioning of a system that they make a
> request time limit mandatory?
>
>
> You might use the LORA Wan stuff …
>
> Because assuming I only need to design a protocol, I just need to create a
> web server of a certain kind. People can share the locations of their
> servers, exactly like a URL for HTTP, or an email address for IMAP. As long
> as it conforms to the “standards” in a way (I’m not sure how to enforce
> that, like a protocol in Swift or an interface in Java), it’s a valid
> server - just like a REST API I believe can be written in any language but
> it just respond to things like GET requests and so on.
>
> 2. Is the Freifunk group precisely that, a DIY radio based local area
> network?
>
>
> No, Freifunk is managing and building WLAN/WIFi based Networks, which ate
> free to be used by everyone. Also it is independent of govermentoperations
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> Loria
>
>
> When is the next meeting?
>
> Thanks very much,
> Julius
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