Just a caution because it's not clear from the article or app, Open Garden volunteers your mobile data connection. That seems to be the intended purpose for meshing your personal devices, but it volunteers your connection to the entire mesh, ie everyone nearby[0].
That'd be fine for eg my home wired connection (especially if bandwidth throttled so mostly for the use of firechat), but metered cell data could potentially be blown just by sitting near someone with a laptop that wants to do an update... it seems like something you'd want to warn people of and not hide in a forum post.
That'd be fine for eg my home wired connection (especially if bandwidth throttled so mostly for the use of firechat), but metered cell data could potentially be blown just by sitting near someone with a laptop that wants to do an update... it seems like something you'd want to warn people of and not hide in a forum post.
0: http://forum.opengarden.com/discussion/345/i-want-to-know-is...