Afghans Build Open Source Internet From Trash

An anonymous reader writes "Residents of Jalalabad have built the FabFi network: an open-source system that uses common building materials and off-the-shelf electronics to transmit wireless ethernet signals across distances of up to several miles."

Re:Semantics maybe...

[Musically_ut]

... I'm sure everybody I know makes more money than most people in Afghanistan and not a single one of them could do this, so money makes people dumb as far as I can tell.

Don't be that so harsh on the First World people, they have their own share of problems. [reddit.com]

We out-Sovieted the Soviets

[Tablizer]

In the US, we do the opposite: take the Internet and make it INTO trash.

Re:Homebrew mesh networking.

[vga_init]

Pashtun to Pashtun networking?