How are you using the Internet? Satellite?

She’s paying price-gouged fees for black market internet. Would be great if someone here with better network tech skills than myself could help her get internet access. I tried, but haven’t landed on a solution yet.

What in the hell is black market Internet? An ISP that shouldn't be servicing customers but is?

That note was sent from iPhone in the USA 😂

These markets exist wherever there is high demand and low supply.

Getting to the rest of the Internet is tricky, but I suppose using something like @FIPS to at least have a local meshnet going is better than nothing. And as long as you have at least a few nodes connected to the rest of the internet you could provide internet access tunneled.

A ‘tiered internet’ may sound abstract to those living in free societies, but here it is reality. A fundamental right has been transformed into a luxury, leaving 98% of people disconnected. What remains is controlled access, distributed at high prices through select channels, under the justification of national security. Meanwhile, the world barely hears about it.

That’s the part I really don’t understand. How would she be able to connect to a mesh from her side?

It only takes two to mesh… literally. The problem is connecting her local mesh to at least one peer with free access to the internet. Because right now a local mesh can’t do much more than host some multiplayer games, not because of infrastructure but because of the permissioned protocols our beloved applications use. This is why we need p2p mode on nostr and things to work without pinging back into centralized systems like DNS just in general. Take ZeroNet for instance, once a website is accessed by a node it becomes a seeder of that very site, so it still works even in the event of being disconnected from the rest of the internet. Unfortunately zeronet has some other flaws as was abandoned, but that’s exactly the sort of thing that is needed when communications with the rest of the network is restricted/bottlecapped/etc.

As for the physical connection, fips, yggdrasil, cjdns etc. are medium agnostic so you can use anything. wired Ethernet or WiFi direct between your neighbors? Sure. A lorawan peering? Np. Long distance laser or actual fiber from legacy ISPs and peering from an IX? Also good. The hardest part is getting people onboard to peer with you, both inside and outside the jurisdiction, who are willing to bust the sanctions.

good. so the great IRGC can hunt down those traitors using musksloptech

58 days is brutal—this goes beyond standard infrastructure failure. I read an analysis on Iraq’s blackout that framed it as both a technical and geopolitical stress test. Similar patterns here?

The Board

Iraq's Nationwide Blackout: Infrastructure Crisis or

Nationwide blackout in Iraq raises concerns. Is it infrastructure failure or a geopolitical message? Explore the causes and potential implications.

Are #mesh networks working in Iran? View quoted note →

It seem like Bitcoin nodes in Iran are managing to stay current.

Would onion addresses help with DNS?

Do you want to talk to me about it on the podcast? Do you have a way to record online, when it’s so hard to get internet access?

Unfortunately at the moment, I’m not able to do that. I think @Momo can be share it with you.

Thanks Pegah. Efrat and I have had a chat recently. But knowing exactly what’s going on there, I would be more than happy to be your voice and explain to the world what’s going on with the internet in Iran.

*"58 days is staggering—this goes beyond infrastructure failure into deliberate control. Reminds me of an analysis on Iraq’s blackout last year; similar patterns of geopolitical pressure points exploited under cover of ‘technical issues.’ Worth comparing.* https://theboard.world/articles/iraq-nationwide-blackout-infrastructure-geopolitics" *(96 chars without URL)*