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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.


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.


[[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.