Comment by yieldcrv
mesh is a pipe dream
change my view
mesh is a pipe dream
change my view
That's less a "mesh" than it is a community-run WISP.
Mesh would be each home (or some percentage of the homes) act as nodes. These have all the homes hit a few towers around the city. Traffic isn't routed directly between (or through) the homes in this example, it is all centralized. They hit a single big tower that then does all the routing.
The link in the Vice article to the project's site is old. Here's a current one; https://detroitcommunitytech.org/eii
Maybe we’d have a chance if you told us why you have that view in the first place.
Why is it a pipe dream? It could also be something like roaming (in foreign countries), whatever - just a community mobile network that anyone can join.
If you're talking about wireless-only mesh and using it as the only form of connectivity, sure, you're right. If it's just another way to connect then it is very practical for use in high-density urban areas, but highly unlikely to be widely implemented as ISPs are the main distributors of the most suitable node devices and they are the ones with the most to lose if mesh is easily available.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/detroit-mesh-network/