Anyone heard of the Lantern Outernet?

[Proud Citizen]

I came across this today, has anyone heard of this? Is it legit?

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lantern-one-device-free-data-from-space-forever


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[turbo89]

Here's a BBC article in it:

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29593734

interesting aspect:

Because the Outernet is effectively a one-way connection, it would not provide email or other chat facilities.

But internet-less users would be able to request specific content be added by sending its operators an SMS text message or letter.

Net-connected organizations can, however, pay a fee to have their own material added to broadcasts at specific times, providing a source of revenue.

 

[Prepper]

That's kind of interesting. I'm still not sure how it works though. You can't simultaneously broadcast all content (or a big subset of it) on the Internet all at once, so what do they do -- broadcast it all in a loop and you pick up the pieces of it you want when it loops back to what you want? How long would the loop take?

 

[Prepper]

Actually, it is looking less interesting. I guess it stores data it downloads, although I can't find how much storage it has, or how big the total size of the data loop is going to be. I'm guessing maybe 32-64GB SD card, which isn't a whole lot. It might be a little more interesting if the data loop had TB's of data and you could specify in advance which subset(s) of it you are interested in. But, I didn't see any info to indicate it operates this way.

I might as well use HTTrack Website Copier to copy what I want (to SD card, or a much larger 2TB HD or something) while I have a connection; done.

Unless I'm still missing something about this that makes it better than downloading stuff yourself.

 

[Proud Citizen]

Here is a link to the article i came across, i was interested in it as a way to stay informed in a grid down situation. But sounds like you can only receive info, not send.

http://americanpreppersnetwork.com/2015/01/outernet.html


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