Serving hacker camp with porta-data-potties
The Chaos Communication Camp in Germany is using their supply of blue porta johns for hubs to help ensure that connections stay high and dry. This makes perfect sense, because why use a porta john as a bathroom? That would be ridiculous. This is the only logical means of protecting those connections. I mean covering things in big blue tarps is only for the cars in my driveway (I’m all class). Seriously, who needs a bathroom anyways when there are so many other people’s tents around?
Two and a half miles of fiber cables run in and out of 16 converted toilets, called “datenklos.” Tents cluster around them, in the woods, against the old bunkers, in the fields; Ethernet cables snake out to Fiber2give the campers direct access, but there’s also Wi-Fi blanketing the area.
The overall bandwidth is a little less than organizers had hoped. They’re used to 10 Gbps pipes, and indeed, their own camp backbone supports that, but the local ISP could only dedicate a 300 Mbps connection.
Read more at wired.com
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