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johnnyforeigner | 7 years ago

In Catalunya we’ve had such a network for many years and it is specifically used for providing connectivity to rural parts of the country. It’s called Guifi.net and has over 30,000 nodes. I was surprised it wasn’t mentioned in the article actually.

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Paul-ish|7 years ago

It was mentioned.

> While there are mesh networks dotting the U.S., she says the best working example of what mesh technology can do is in Spain. Guifi.net has more than 34,000 nodes covering an area of roughly 50,000 square kilometres across the Catalonia region.

g8oz|7 years ago

Guifi.net is actually mentioned halfway through the article.