References

Case Studies

Little Rock, AR

http://open-mesh.com/overview.php?id=argenta

Prestonsburg, KY (meraki.net)

Urbana-Champaign, IL (cuwin.net)

Vienna, Austria (funkfeuer.at)

Montreal, Canada (ilesansfil.org)

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=PRNI2&STORY=/www/story/12-02-2008/0004935445&EDATE=

The Case for Viral Broadband (2004)

http://web.media.mit.edu/~vyzo/vbb/papers/vbb.pdf

My Open Wireless (2008)

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/01/my_open_wireles.html

How to do port forwarding

http://robin.forumup.it/viewtopic.php?t=291&highlight=port+forwarding&mforum=robin

The $200 Billion Rip-Off: Our broadband future was stolen. (8/07)

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070810_002683.html

Useful Internet metering tools

http://measurementlab.net/measurement-lab-tools

The Origin of the Mesh Potato

http://www.villagetelco.org/2008/06/the-origin-of-the-mesh-potato/

Doug Engelbart's "Mother of All Demos."

Check this video of a pre-eminent computer scientist demonstrating such completely outlandish concepts as a mouse, hypertext, and copy/paste way back in 1968, albeit with a support staff of at least 1 dozen technicians in 2 different cities. Most of the audience (including at least one professor from MIT) thought the presenter was crazy, which was understandable since at this point microprocessors didn't exist yet.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8734787622017763097