{"id":22579,"date":"2018-08-30T16:42:41","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T20:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=22579"},"modified":"2018-08-30T16:42:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T20:42:41","slug":"gotenna-mesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/30\/gotenna-mesh\/","title":{"rendered":"goTenna Mesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevenf.com\/wiki\/goTenna%20Mesh%20notes.html\">Steven Frank<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stevenf\/status\/1034134533119983618\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/stevenf.com\/wiki\/goTenna%20Mesh%20notes.html\"><p>So what&rsquo;s a goTenna Mesh?  It&rsquo;s a portable battery-powered antenna that&rsquo;s capable of forming an ad-hoc wireless mesh network with other goTenna Mesh units in-range.  That is to say, they <em>don&rsquo;t<\/em> connect to the internet, wi-fi, or the cellular network -- just to each other.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>The most realistic use-case right <em>now<\/em> is for people who need to communicate at a distance, but do not have cellular network coverage.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Unlike many goTenna users, I'm rarely off the beaten path deep in the woods, or on an ocean cruise. I bought my goTennas to show my support for an ideal that I strongly believe in: that there should be an affordable, easy-to-use, community-owned alternative to big telecom infrastructure, and that public spectrum is a wonderful thing that we should use.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Frank (tweet): So what&rsquo;s a goTenna Mesh? It&rsquo;s a portable battery-powered antenna that&rsquo;s capable of forming an ad-hoc wireless mesh network with other goTenna Mesh units in-range. That is to say, they don&rsquo;t connect to the internet, wi-fi, or the cellular network -- just to each other.[&#8230;]The most realistic use-case right now is for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-08-30T20:42:43Z","apple_news_api_id":"7387e402-f77f-4373-99d3-adf96e55bf79","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-08-30T20:42:43Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ac4fkAvd_Q3OZ0635blW_eQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[31,30,187],"class_list":["post-22579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-ios","tag-mac","tag-wifi"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22580,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22579\/revisions\/22580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}