{"id":117521,"date":"2015-01-26T15:43:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T13:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=117521"},"modified":"2015-01-26T15:45:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T13:45:09","slug":"no-internet-well-just-lan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/117521-no-internet-well-just-lan.html","title":{"rendered":"No Internet? We&#8217;ll just LAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young Cubans may be cut off from the Internet, but they have quietly linked thousands of computers into a hidden network that stretches miles across Havana. It lets them chat with friends, play games and download hit movies in a mini-replica of the online world that most can&#8217;t access.<\/p>\n<p>They have created a private network of more than 9,000 computers with small, inexpensive, Wi-Fi antennas and Ethernet cables strung over streets and rooftops spanning the entire city.<\/p>\n<p>Disconnected from the real Internet, the network is limited, local and built with equipment commercially available around the world, with no help from any outside government, organizers say.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds are online at any moment.<\/p>\n<p>SNet is technically illegal, but operators say they try to avoid provoking authorities, banning pornography and political discussions.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Internet news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/117480-648-million-people-are-surfing-the-web-in-china.html\">648 million people are surfing the web in China<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/117460-multichoice-mum-on-netflix-coming-to-sa.html\">MultiChoice mum on Netflix coming to SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/117448-megachat-kim-dotcoms-skype-killer.html\">MegaChat: Kim Dotcom\u2019s \u201cSkype killer\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young Cubans may be cut off from the Internet, but they have quietly linked thousands of computers into a hidden network that stretches miles across Havana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":74148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,7981,3234,11305],"class_list":["post-117521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-cuba","tag-lan","tag-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}