[Link] Activists are Designing Mesh Networks to Deploy During Civil Unrest

Read: 5/10/2021 www.vice.com

Imagine waking up and checking your phone after several evenings of mass demonstrations. You try scrolling through your Twitter feed, but it won’t load. You turn your router off and on to no avail. You try texting a friend to complain, but the message fails to send. Frustrated, you walk outside.

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[Link] Vilo’s mesh Wi-Fi router is dirt cheap ($20) and stupidly simple

Read: 27/7/2021 thenextweb.com

Routers are pretty boring to write about, but every once in a while I’ll make an exception, as is the case with the new Vilo mesh Wi-Fi system. Why? Because it’s dirt cheap and stupidly simple to set up — and I mean that in the best way possible.

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