Egyptian Wireless Built on Ingenuity
This website details a project by an Egyptian Internet Cafe owner to get a wireless broadband connection at his hand using self-developed line-of-sight technology.
This site makes me very very happy because it reminds me of two things. 1) That I should not take my broadband connection at home for granted and 2) come the apocolypse, I wonder if people in countries where they actually have to invent something that they want will survive better than those of us in ‘developed’ coutnries.
January 15th, 2003 at 7:50 am
I particularly like that fact that a majour technological hinderance was the availability of pringles cartons!
It’s certainly an innovative solution and it’s good to see this kinda thing coming from ‘non-obvious’ places. Perhaps there’s all kinds of intereting things happening in ‘the rest of the world’ that US/UK/Oz/Euro/etc forget about. I know I was astounded by the level of stuff in Israel when I had contact with it (specifically a solution for routing voice from a telephone exchange through native ATM networks and out again).