RE: Hello to All!
One can send data over longer wavelengths but the tradeoff is the longer the wavelength (hence lower the frequency) the lower the data rate (look up Nyquist and Shannon if you want to start learning about that). The US military sends data globally over extremely low frequencies (look up ELF and HARP for starters) to reach submarines around the world but they transmit with a lot of power (more than you can get out of an AC outlet) and the data rate is in a few bits per MINUTE, not megabits per SECOND. Useful if you can fit your say in a word but not much good for even a tweet which could easily take an hour or two to send. Of course, the other issue is manmade. Regulations (some by country, many by international treaty) prohibit people from emitting electromagnetic waves except with certain wavelengths and power without getting a license or permission. In the US it is the FCC that regulates that.
How long are sky waves or Short Wave Radio Waves when compared to how low the data rate it may have?
So, I like what you said about ELF and HARP, but yeah, it took a lot of power to do that. And it was slow compared to video streaming or even a tweet like you said.
KNL says they are working on developing shortwave WIFI. They are from Finland according to Swling.com. They spent $10 million USD these past few years so far it seems.
I don't know enough to know if KNL or others can do shortwave WIFI. And I am also reading about what you were working on too. And I think it is better if we could try to find different ways of accessing internet, be it through the air, through cables, maybe through worm holes if we were in the Star Trek future, and maybe even through powerlines......
I think what you were and are doing can continue to grow.... we can do ad-hoc or better networking things like you said....
And it is true that people and corporations and governments can always try to monopolize and take over markets including Internet and computer related software, hardware, systems, like you were saying. You asked about how we stop them from hogging up too much of the Internet, of the ISP structures, other infrastructures, that help connect people with people, Internet, computers, phones, and everything.
But my answer is that we cannot really stop them all of the time except to keep things as open source and copy left and open to the public as possible through capitalism and everything: I believe in blockchain WIFI systems: we should reward people for helping in doing what internet service providers (ISP) do. Instead of being forced to go to Comcast or others, we should all be able to be our own internet service providers to and for each other. And the internet can be a lot slower that way but we could slowly get paid doing it and we can all slowly upgrade our hardwares and everything and the internet could grow in more organic ways that way.
I want more competition in the ISP world and in anything else that could help give people more choices in ISP, etc....