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Remember the internet from the ITCrowd? You could build sort of your own version with the RPi-A: You can build your own in"tra"net versus using the in"ter"net. But if you really want to be useful you might want to use a stationary satellite. But then to get world wide coverage you might need several stationary satellites. Do not tell me someone has not already done this. So you get: Getting close to home.  Even if you do not have all that fancy equipment you can still build a private intranet.  A bit dated, but still viable: In part one you will get the basic setup and a few tweaks. http://www.instructables.com/id/Your-personal-intranet-Part-1/ In part two you will get some additional tweaks. http://www.instructables.com/id/Your-personal-intranet-Part-2/ Have fun.

With the internet you can access so many applications say a cooking program to help you prepare meals. The network configuration is pretty simple. It might look something like this: But then you can actually set up your own home web server and the network might look something like this. I have separated the web paths from the internet and the local web server  to make things a little clearer. Now that means you could have even more interesting web applications such as a web desktop. Some with a tablet could still generate documents without having any special applications on the tablet. You even set up many other applications without having to use the web. ( http://www.instructables.com/id/Uses-for-your-own-private-cloud/ ) So now you have double the pleasure. But what if your internet was cut off or you needed to limit your bandwidth. The the network might look something like this, but you would still have access to your local server. This is sometimes kno...

Many people will disagree with me when I say the cloud is just a server. Clouds can be classified as public, private or hybrid, but that is what it really boils down to it is a machine or set of machines providing services over the web. Certainly you can argue that cloud can provide infrastructure, platform, and the traditional application services. Talked about some of these services in earlier articles. However the internet is a network of systems that can be clearly defined. In the systems on the network can be described sort of like a road map or a set of telephone lines connected like below. It may not be important exactly how they are put together, except that we know they are there. To know who is where either by what is known as a web address or an ipaddress (sort of phone number) allows you to access part of the cloud that you wish to connect to. It is impossible to know every phone number or ipaddress by heart, so the internet has a built in phonebook known as a Domain name s...

Many people will disagree with me when I say the cloud is just a server. Clouds can be classified as public, private or hybrid, but that is what it really boils down to it is a machine or set of machines providing services over the web. Certainly you can argue that cloud can provide infrastructure, platform, and the traditional application services. Talked about some of these services in earlier articles. However the internet is a network of systems that can be clearly defined. In the systems on the network can be described sort of like a road map or a set of telephone lines connected like below. It may not be important exactly how they are put together, except that we know they are there. To know who is where either by what is known as a web address or an ipaddress (sort of phone number) allows you to access part of the cloud that you wish to connect to. It is impossible to know every phone number or ipaddress by heart, so the internet has a built in phonebook known as...

You can actually have a network without depending on the interneR. Some people might joke that it ia an internet of nothing aka ION. Now we hear about the IOT or internet of things.  Where you and anyone else can access your network from anywhere.  That may or may not be such a good thing.What can you do? You can build you own net where you  have more control and everything is accessed locally, so the internet being down does not affect what you do. Basic setup (part 1). h ttp://www.instructables.com/id/Your-personal-intranet-Part-1/ More goodies (part 2). http://www.instructables.com/id/Your-personal-intranet-Part-2/ For small offices and neighborhood setups, these ideas can be a boon to privacy.

You can actually have a network without depending on the interneR. Some people might joke that it ia an internet of nothing aka ION. Now we hear about the IOT or internet of things.  Where you and anyone else can access your network from anywhere.  That may or may not be such a good thing.What can you do? You can build you own net where you  have more control and everything is accessed locally, so the internet being down does not affect what you do. Basic setup (part 1). h ttp://www.instructables.com/id/Your-personal-intranet-Part-1/ More goodies (part 2). http://www.instructables.com/id/Your-personal-intranet-Part-2/ For small offices and neighborhood setups, these ideas can be a boon to privacy.

Traditionally, neighborhood intranet was called guerilla networking (not to be confused with guerilla marketing). Known people that have done this for years. My personal feeling is that you not connect it to the real internet. If you want to connect to the internet, have a separate network. All of it is easy to set up, but there is a minefield of legal issues. Caveat Emptor. http://www.ehow.com/how_2070419_start-neighborhood-intranet.html  http://www.meetdageeks.com/2012/02/your-own-intranet.html

Had to stay at my brother's house last summer while the AC was being replaced. While there, he was kind enough to let me access his wifi. It was real easy. You just log in and your on-line. The neat part of it was you are blocked out of using the local area network. He uses a wireless router from that company in Cupertino, California. I wanted to have the same thing but did not want to spend one hundred plus dollars on a new router like he did. Recently I purchased a used Cisco Linksys wrt-54g from the local Goodwill store specializing in computer stuff real cheap. Knew that you could upgrade the firmware with dd-wrt, openwrt, and a host of others. In fact, I think I had installed dd-wrt. Wanted more like what my brother has. After doing some research, I found some firmware. Known as CoovaAP, it is known is what is called a Wisp (wifi inTERnet service provider. Well I wanted it for our intranet (local area full service network without internet access). We have sort of our own mi...