>>>Just what would you suggest for an average person that knows little about all this complicated sounding packet switching stuff?<<<
This is why I suggest a group of knowledgeable Patriots get together and organize it.
The equipment is mostly straight ‘off the shelf’ for wireless connections peer to peer. If we had someone put together the packet software to match (all it does is listen then when clear it sends it’s packet - same way internet works). All this happens without you actually seeing it - just like now, you don’t see the hops that your internet connection takes to get around the world, but the software handles it with the packet ID’s.
Should be no more difficult once the components are picked and the software adapted than say hooking up a second computer as an internal network and plugging in the antenna and wireless box.
The beauty is that as mentioned by another above is the ability to encrypt (which computers can do very well), and the low power would be hard to intercept particularly if they had to sort out wireless printers, wifi’s at every Starbucks, hotel, along with your kids WII or even DS, etc.
I have decided to first off go ahead and buy any decent CB radio either from Walmart, Radio Shack or fleabay, something with a few bells and whistles just so I can establish communication with other truckers, interestingly I drive a truck but only local and do not use a CB radio, what I want to set up for myself is something of local range of 50 miles first off with a minimum of 5 miles and then secondly is something that others agree upon as a universally accepted frequency such as HAM, the real question here is who is going to start the protocols of assigned times and freqs?
Or perhaps we can start a 24 hour recorded message on the hour highlighting specific news or events. Sort of like a HNN but Freerepublic style.