The Seasteading Institute

Reply To: Data!

A managed 'stead-wide network would be benificial to all living aboard. Having everyone on one (highly-secured) network would simplify all intra-seastead communications. With a satelite link to the outside, all residents or guests would have an internet connection. Throught the use of wifi (or wimax) technology thoughout, along with wifi-based phones there would be no need to depend on the outragously high prices charged by off-shore cellular carriers, which I have seen as much as $10/min or more.

Once the infrastructure was in place, the network itself would have relatively low overhead costs. Just the costs of maintanence and upgrades. The satelite link itself, for the internet, would be the expensive part. This would be the one part that would have to be negotiated to make it cost-effective.