>>11282161 (lb)

A few possibilities: they might just take out DNS. If that happens, maybe write down some IP addresses ahead of time. If they blackhole backbone/peering routes, then things might be reachable within ASes but that’s difficult because the AS structure is largely opaque to those using it at the edge. If it’s straight up severed like San Jose fiber was years ago (dry run?), then about all you could do is hook a WiFi AP up to a tethered phone with a linux router doing NAT, but that assumes LTE is on. Or I guess you could find DOCSIS switches and reconfigure them to be openly L2 switched but then you have addressing headaches. No good options.

>>11282745

Maybe dial up modems (though where to?). Maybe commercial accounts might be up, in which case you’d need to do a WiFi-WiFi repeater chain to get there. Maybe the 7/11 ATM is hooked up to something live. University campuses are essentially their own ISPs, so in particular a religious school may be persuadable in some manner.

If this really did go nuclear, I think the best thing would be setting up a public neighborhood access point at a very high location and a simple http chat server, then distribute how to connect to it. Later focus on expanding the network and getting out to the world.

>>11282892

There are radio options but they require (in theory) a FCC license and are required to disclose their location. Also requires reasonable expertise and tuning. Best is to use a shitty lower speed 802.11b and fuck around with channels / walking down the street to get a range idea.

Power lines are largely a bust. Satellite is definitely an option but you know somebody would get horny and stream youporn all night and cost you $2000 when the apocalypse is over.

Dial up modem is interesting because it’s low tech and analog but fast enough. Think if you had pre-built SHTF infrastructure to screenshot certain things and poll it every say 10 minutes and say upload some outgoing messaging. Problem is would need to be built in advance and maintained.

>>11283156

Dunno, I think widespread outages of over a day would have me reaching for my linux laptop and dusting off that spare access point in a closet somewhere.

>>11283271

We all need to remember this moment and promise to ourselves that in the future we will create an anonymous organization, say a new Christian order, dedicated only to preservation of back channel communication, using every technology, I mean down to a plan to have truckers ship USB keys if necessary. Everyone involved must have one thing in common- you cannot be bought at any price. There are many unsolved problems with this, but through prayer and careful thought, it could put up a vigilant and resilient response to threats of this kind. There are simply too many ways to transmit data. The only thing that would stop it is laziness, not having a dedicated, truly sure belief that it is what the Christian God prefers, and having leaders that are named anything but random digits somewhere out there.

Do you feel what I’m saying?