Neighbornode is a
captive portal
A captive portal is a web page accessed with a web browser that is displayed to newly connected users of a Wi-Fi or wired network before they are granted broader access to network resources. Captive portals are commonly used to present a landin ...
on a residential
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi () is a family of wireless network protocols, based on the IEEE 802.11 family of standards, which are commonly used for local area networking of devices and Internet access, allowing nearby digital devices to exchange data by radio wav ...
hotspot, containing a
message board
An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. They differ from chat rooms in that messages are often longer than one line of text, and are at least temporar ...
. It is designed to help neighbors who share an internet connection know each other better.
The message board can only be accessed within range of the hotspot. Individual Neighbornodes can be linked together to create a
supernode, vaguely like
Fidonet. It is implemented as an
alternative firmware for the
Linksys WRT54G
The Linksys WRT54G Wi-Fi series is a series of Wi-Fi–capable residential gateways marketed by Linksys, a subsidiary of Cisco from 2003 until acquired by Belkin in 2013. A ''residential gateway'' connects a local area network (such as a home netw ...
router.
The project was created by John Geraci of
Interactive Telecommunications Program
The New York University Tisch School of the Arts (commonly referred to as Tisch) is the performing, cinematic and media arts school of New York University.
Founded on August 17, 1965, Tisch is a training ground for artists, scholars of the ar ...
,
who also created
Grafedia.
References
External links
John Geraci
Custom firmware
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