Can we create a connection to the internet ourselves without having to use a cellular 3g/4g subscription / wifi subscription?
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You can, it will just be extremely, extremely, extremely, expensive.
You’d have to setup all the hardware and contract all the private lines to a big colocation house.
So yes. It’s technically possible. It is just prohibitively expensive.
First we have to understant what the internet acctually is. The thing that we call internet is the connection between at least 2 devices. Wifi is just emmited from a router, witch is connected with cables to the carriers infrastructure. Mobile data is just your device connecting to a local tower owned by the carrier of choice. Its similar to the way calls work. But instead of dialer apps and phone apps we have web browsers and other apps that want to “make a call” to another computer. When you try to call someone, you connect to the closest carrier tower, witch makes a temporary connection to the closest to your target tower, witch connects you to your target. With that layer of abstraction in mind, lets look at the internet. Your web browser “calls” for example shmoogle.com, and they start talking to eachother. Shmoogle sends you the way the UI looks, you tell the browser your question, and the browser sends that to shmoogle. Shmoogle sends you back what is essentially a list of phone numbers. if you click on one, your browser will redirect you to, for example, wikipedia.com. This website, witch is in fact a computer running all night and day waiting for someone to call it, will not send you a list of phone numbers, but instead some text. and youtube will send you videos etc… Not only web browsers can make phone calls, every app can. your p2w mobile game app calls its main computer whitch remembers how much shiny gems you got, the reddit app sends you your feed, your custom reddit client like infinity will connect to the official reddit servers too.
So, to answer the question. Yes, there are easy ways to create local off the grid communication systems /see [this](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3sYP19Ts48w) video explaining how to set up piratebox/ that can vaigly be called internet, and there are ways to make a long range off the grid communication systems similar to piratebox, but thoose networks will be seperated from the globaly used internet. you cant connect to reddit thru this network and the internet wont be able to connect to you too. If you actually make your own network that you will be able to connect to from around the world, and find people who actually want to connect to it, you can make it free, you can charge for entry as you please and that can be a way to create a second internet. But as long as the sites of interest like wikipedia and youtube and reddit are not willing to make a mirror to their service connected to that network, nobody will want to connect to it.
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