One of the touted features of the $200 OLPC laptop is the peer-to-peer mesh topology networking feature that can theoretically bring an Internet infrastructure where there is no network infrastructure ...

Wide area networks, or WANs, provide network communication services in the workplace, connecting locations that can be spread out anywhere in the world. A topology is a description of a layout or ...

The interconnections of nodes in a communications network. Nodes are wired together in a star, bus or ring architecture. Ethernet uses a star configuration, although earlier Ethernets used a bus.

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Mesh Wi-Fi resolves spotty internet by using multiple nodes to cover dead zones effectively. Nodes form a single network for ...

With iOS 7, Apple snuck in a very interesting feature that has mostly gone unnoticed: Mesh networking for both WiFi and Bluetooth. It also seems that Google is working to add mesh networking to ...