Neighborhood area networks?

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Author: JT Smith

Slashdot discusses peer-to-peer-oriented networking: “What will society do, when there are kits in every computer store and mall, for
802.11a neighborhood routers? What if you could buy a kit with four pole-mounting 15DB
directional antennas, and a router in a sealed case that maintains mesh networks? … There will
be a great blooming of local gaming, IM, and voice/video telephony … a lot of sharing of music
and video on these NANs (neighborhood area networks)…”