How Will ISP Data Caps Affect the SAFE Network?

http://broadbandnow.com/report/providers-with-data-caps/

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The better question is what will happen if we start mesh networking? Short term I don’t think this will be a problem. People will push their internet to their data cap and earn as much safecoin as possible. But because of this limitation I think there will be more clamor for mesh networking capability added to the network so that we won’t be directly dependent on ISPs.

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CJDNS interpolate greatly with maidsafe.

We already have the tech, we just need people to push the boundaries.

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Or batman-adv etc. There are already huge networks in many country’s. check out freifunk

I gather data caps are still an issue in certain countries. I know that like 10-15 years ago they used to be an issue here (The Netherlands), but usually only if you downloaded several gigabytes a day. Now I can easily download / upload hundreds of GB a month without any problems.

I guess this may be a problem for individual users, but I think the network will have receive plenty of bandwidth from users that don’t have to deal with ISP data caps.

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