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I don't understand this fascination with networks that require special hardware to intermediate between end user nodes. Would be much nicer if things just ran, zero-click, via WiFi, on most common computers, netbooks and phones, pure p2p with automatic forwarding, no?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_ad_hoc_network

By requiring special hardware, and be it just some common router, or any sort of special technical skill, you are already excluding 99.99% of the world population...

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