What are your backup plans for an internet and telecom shutdown?
I don’t believe trusting in satilite internet companies (especially one owned by a fascist) are very practical.
Outside of radio and ad-hoc networks however, I’m not sure what other options would be feasible for the average person that wanted to prepare for something like this.
For basic texting Meshtastic is quite OK within a city.
Sadly, I don’t have the time or money to put into the plans that we should really have in place. Both for this, and just for hurricane emergencies. The plan would be mesh networking and local data caches though. I’d follow the book on these matters. (The book is the freely distributed “Wireless Networking in the Developing World”, a practical guide to building local networks anywhere.)
So far I’ve been testing out low-power, handheld LoRa radios running the Meshtastic open source firmware on them. The data-rate isn’t great, at 37.5kbps, so slightly slower than traditional dial-up. It’s line of sight, but it can travel 250km with a handheld device. The handheld ones can be linked with bluetooth to a phone, or USB to a computer, to send messages to other devices. The really cool part is in the name thiugh, you can achieve greater distances by meshing with other nodes. There are also devices and designs made to be used as stationary repeaters, and they sip power. You can run one off a 5-10w solar panel, with an 18650 to keep it going when the sun isn’t shining. The community also kind of already has a bit of a solarpunk element to it in my opinion :) Oh, and they’re cheap! That repeater project is about US$50 but a handheld one is only ~US$20.
Deploy my own city wide mesh, then sell the kits to help people extend it.
If any corpos want in, get fucked
Governments Are Suddenly Shutting Down The Internet
They are not. And can not, especially individually.
