Quote from: gmaxwell on July 18, 2020, 09:27:21 PM

Quote from: FreeStreamer on July 18, 2020, 09:02:24 PM

The thing with Mesh is that the more nodes are interconnected, the faster the internet will become. This is easier to accomplish in a large city. Also with Mesh you are never queued because it always chooses the optimal available node for connection.

What you're describing is currently only true in the land of spherical cows.

The reality of mesh technology is that it's extremely challenging and as a result underdeveloped.

E.g. up thread I asked for examples, and the primary example is a lora mesh that achieves extremely low bandwidth SMS like messaging.

It's really cool, but it's not "fast internet".

No one has even really started to answer questions like how you can handle malicious mesh nodes in a way that doesn't compromise performance or just require all nodes to be approved.

Quote from: FreeStreamer on July 18, 2020, 02:18:33 PM

Right, so you are Mesh expert and you have examined all the projects and you know this for sure? No wonder Bitcoin is slow if uses a satellite as third party in its centralized pyramid scheme.

I've certainly been a networking expert (e.g. my CV would support that claim). I'd be totally happy to see mesh projects that delivered the properties that you're claiming, but I haven't seen them. Please -- feel free to find examples. I'd be happy to discuss them.

You're not making a case for your own expertise by calling satellite slow. For a natural broadcast usage like Bitcoin it can be exceptionally efficient. For example, the cumulative directtv video bandwidth is multiple gigabit/s per second-- available to every location over entire entire landmasses with costs like femto-cents-per-megabyte-per-potential-user. No other technology is even comparable for broadcast use. It doesn't do all things well, but it's still a very powerful technology.

Ok. According to this one guy a group of PhD's had stated that B.A.T.M.A.N protocol is the best Mesh router protocol out there. A malicious mesh node? What exactly do you mean by that? For what purpose would the malicious nodes exist? Standard nodes have max capacity and you could set a cap limit to output for standard nodes. Someone running a malicious node would forge the output to very high, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.A.T.M.A.N.