Lots of places have localised mesh nets for sharing data because speeds are so bad. Kinda like Cuba's country wide LAN. One person downloads it from the WWW then everyone else can access it locally with bittorrent it direct download and have essentially unlimited speed because the infrastructure is maintained by the people.
That's romanticising the situation. The Cuban LANs don't span across cities and the speeds are quite bad (~2 MB/s on a good day) because of overcrowded wireless links.
They do have the 'paquete semanal', which is a hard drive that's distributed weekly and contains terabytes of fresh pirates material. That is much much faster and the way most Cubans get software and media.
Lots of places have localised mesh nets for sharing data because speeds are so bad. Kinda like Cuba's country wide LAN. One person downloads it from the WWW then everyone else can access it locally with bittorrent it direct download and have essentially unlimited speed because the infrastructure is maintained by the people.
That's romanticising the situation. The Cuban LANs don't span across cities and the speeds are quite bad (~2 MB/s on a good day) because of overcrowded wireless links.
They do have the 'paquete semanal', which is a hard drive that's distributed weekly and contains terabytes of fresh pirates material. That is much much faster and the way most Cubans get software and media.
I was thinking about Iraq too, there's apparently something similar there that's way faster than the metered 2G link a lot of people rely on.