EARLY next year, a hundred lucky households in Cardiff will get a free
glimpse of the future. They will be the first in the world to plug into a new
type of high-capacity wireless network called mesh radio. It will let them watch
movies on demand, hold broadcast-quality video chats with their neighbours, and
download from the Internet at a blistering 4 megabits per second—many
times the speed of wired broadband delivery systems like ADSL and cable
modems.
Even better, says its developers, mesh radio won’t slow down when a lot of
people try to use it at the…
