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Equipping the laptop with cellular phone abilities is not practical, as the usage fees for such service is extremely high in Egypt. |
Equipping the laptop with cellular phone abilities is not practical, as the usage fees for such service is extremely high in Egypt. |
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Comment: I guess that this is a misunderstanding, infact a *mesh network* has nothing to do with Cellular phone capability, but mesh networks refer to Wifi mesh networks. |
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So the idea is that the laptops would form an ad-hoc network and even one terminal that has an internet uplink would act as a router for the whole mesh network. |
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[[Category:Country|Egypt]] |
[[Category:Country|Egypt]] |
Revision as of 09:06, 13 April 2006
Equipping the laptop with cellular phone abilities is not practical, as the usage fees for such service is extremely high in Egypt.
Comment: I guess that this is a misunderstanding, infact a *mesh network* has nothing to do with Cellular phone capability, but mesh networks refer to Wifi mesh networks. So the idea is that the laptops would form an ad-hoc network and even one terminal that has an internet uplink would act as a router for the whole mesh network.