what about when the Internet goes off?

[Prepper1]

[bigpaul]

I think you can safely say if the internet DID get shut down, then the SHTF is definitely upon us!!

[Waylander]

I've prepped for this

I have boxes of magazines, so I can go back to doing it old school

Waylander

[Skean Dhude]

Turning the Internet off will trigger the riots they want to avoid. So, as has been said, if the internet goes off we have our event.

[Midnitemo]

I suspect the internet is viewed as a great tool to pacify the masses so will be kept on till the very death.

[Highlander]

If the net went down, then a major communication network has disappeared, so yes, I do think that radio in its many forms would make a come back, its one reason many of us have more than one system... ie, ham radio, CB radio, or just plain short distance two way radio

[Jonas]

Amateur radio is the "back-up internet". Even if you don't want to get licensed, get a good high-frequency short-wave radio receiver that has single side-band capability and is digitally tuned, and download the appropriate frequency charts. Also stock up on batteries.

[Lightspeed]

Hmm.

Radio COULD take over SOME of the communications capability of the internet, but not the extrordinary information resource thatthe internet represents.

I'm wondering what the cost of a second-hand Encyclopedia Britannica is now? Answer £3.00 as a CD rom collection and from £50 for a printedversion. Not bad.

BTW Computer to computer typed messaging over radio link is relatively easy and inexpensive to add capability for any SSB capable radio transmitter. The technique used is very nearly as good as morse code for its capability to send messages over very long range.

[Mongrel]

I've wondered about that as well, we rely on the internet for so much those days, it's replaced books in many ways. What I do, is visit charity shops! great books are being dumped and can be purchased for penny's I'm building quite a reference liberty.

[River Song]

LS

I seem to recall from my distant past, something called "packet radio".
Essentially this appeared to be blocks of 128 byte data in an "envelope"

It wouldn't be beyond the bounds of imagination to encapsulate TCP/IP packets and transmit them. I am not sure of the speeds you might get on SSB but you would at least have a rudimentary net.

Talking about communications .............

Paddy goes up to Seamus and sees him talking to an empty envelope.
"What you doing you daft beggar?"
"It's voicemail innit!"


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