Could You Make Your Own Internet?

What if the internet you know and love went away? What would it take to make your own alternative internet just in case that were to happen? Watch this video to find out!

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[mathewman]

you should also add that Hong Kong protesters used this mesh network to communicate with each other when the Chinese government restricted their internet usage.

[leaverjeffery]

I've always been fascinated with living off grid with modern conveniences but I never thought about creating a grid off the grid

[SonicHawker]

I work on youth camps in the middle of the outback (Australia) and this would be an awesome idea to set up a communications network just for the camp so all the staff can keep in touch locally.

[SliinQ]

This is very interesting. A while back I was thinking of making a small mesh network with a couple of RPi's to connect some of my friends together. It would be really cool if we could connect our whole town through these types of networks.

[MichaelFlatman]

my type of internet is running ethernet connections round the house, imagine connecting an ethernet cable to your next door neighbour!

[SeralyneYT]

That spinning sound is slightly annoying when used so repetitively as this. Could you use another one or space it out a bit? The old "blob" sound was alot less anoying

[ZeroGDucks]

My original idea back in college was to hoard routers, pass them among my neighbors in emergency events, get apache or ftp installed on whatever computers needed it, then get the routers connected to eachother. Thing is, I'm not sure how I would work out inter-router things. And even if I could.... everyone in my neighborhood is older than dinosaur poop :/

[SpoodleProductions]

This is litterally one of the coolest things I have ever heard! I have to try it out now!

[Craftzhie]

who's here because of your internet is bad?

[aidanc]

One interesting thing that was glanced over a bit:


Internet doesn't mean wireless! While it's impractical on any large scale to wire a connection to many people, this video seems to mainly be discussing local scale internet anyway. You can eliminate many of the roadblocks which these systems encounter (and albeit introduce a few new ones), while also making your connection faster and more stable just by using wires instead of wireless.


I fact, if you have numerous cell phone devices, you can connect them all to a computer and enable data sharing via usb. This super simple 'plug and play' option can essentially turn the desktop (or other non-mobile os system) into a server. You can load data from one phone to the computer, and then the computer to the phone. This is the same concept as the internet, and can be done without installing any extra software (at least for windows users, Idk about mac/linux).

[rezonite]

Bro your video should blow up in the next month.

[Sakiifyable]

Great tutorial!
In Hungary, at us, government wanted to implement tax on the internet. If that had happened I would have wanted to create a kind of new internet with my friends or something. Or before I got my first smartphone, I looked for tutorials how can I share internet connection via Bluetooth. I ended up writing two J2ME apps to send source code to my previous phone. It was very slow took minutes to transfer a few words.
These are my experiences with creating my own network

[frodo]

There is so much i want to do, i have finally received my Raspberrypi, thanks for so many nice tutorials! Keep up the good work :D

[bgiv]

"What if the Internet was taken over by the government?"
The government is just a bunch of companies in a trench coat.
"The Internet is now owned by various companies..."
SEE?!

[Lghtng]

In short yes. But it depends on how large you want to go. You should look up pirate box DIY make your own network for sharing information cheap and is a lot of fun.

[erishkiegal]

Thank you so very much for making this video. This is information that should be much more widely circulated and you presented it in a manner accessible even to those among us who are not code monkeys.

[servant]

Looking forward to your Raspberry Pi CJDNS tutorial!

[songsbydaniel]

I downloaded a backup of this video just because I know I'll need it one day.

[cablechewerr]

Description: What if internet went away?

2017: Net Neutrality isn’t going to be repelled- uwu

[matthewalkman]

We shouldve been doing this already. Soon its going to be too late.