Community networks are pretty common in rural areas in other countries. My favorites are guifi.net and b4rn.org.uk. They both use lots of fiber running through farms.
We tried repeating LinkNYC kiosks a few years ago but it wasn't reliable enough, making it too difficult to support. We have instructions for a DIY connection on our website and a channel on our Slack where you can ask…
BGP is mesh, we also use bmx6
We have a #newjersey channel on our Slack. We need more people there to help organize
https://nycmesh.net/panorama/1.7miles.png That's a LiteBeam Gen1 installed in the east village on 5th St connected to 375 Pearl St downtown. The gen1 actually has a stronger signal than the gen2, so this is a bit better…
Did you read any of our comments?
Volunteers donate their time because they enjoy it. We have so many volunteers it is hard to keep track of them all. Obviously it is more efficient to use volunteers if there are enough. We are considering using…
Netflix standard streaming is 3Mbps, so even with your math (which isn't how bandwidth works) everyone is happy. We've never come anywhere near saturating our gig connection. We monitor it. Each building is limited to…
There are about 10 fiber providers in the city. We've spoken to most of them. It's pretty much impossible for us to lay fiber, so we have to lease it. We'd like to eventually lease a fiber ring across the city so we can…
We originally used the qMp/OpenWRT package that included mdns, which is a version of zeroconf for the internal network. It isn't scaling so we now use our own DNS server to resolve internal addresses on our 10/ network.
We get a lot of support from the NYC networking community, and we have a lot of friends at the NYNOG meetups. Everyone is very helpful and they also want the big ISPs to have some competition, so we get donations from…
Mainly logistics. We've had a huge influx of people wanting to be connected since December, so we've had to add stuff like a ticketing system, inventory tracking and also we're training people to lead installs. It's…
We bypass traditional ISPs by connecting directly at an internet exchange point (DE-CIX IXP) and peering with other networks. This is basically how the internet is formed, by networks peering with each other. We don't…
Yes the noise floor is bad, but we get about a 2 mile range which covers a huge amount of people in Manhattan. The Ubiquiti sector antennas use TDMA so it is not standard 802.11ac.
It's a non-profit
The public access point SSIDs are usually "-NYC Mesh-" or "nycmesh" followed by location.
Our recurring costs are only for the lease at supernode1, which is around $1000/month. Divide that by our member node count (158) multiplied by users of each node ~4, 1000/(158*4)gives you under $2/month per user.…
No you don't need hundreds of thousands. You do need tens of thousands. We've had no downtime this year at supernode1. Yes reliability is a big priority, but it is not a big priority for the big ISPs in NYC. Time Warner…
We are already self funded by individual donations. Every question I answer seems to bring up new objections.
I don't think you get what we are doing at all! Anyway we are in 375 Pearl with a lease and it has most of your long list, diesel generators etc. We compete on price (donation only)
https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/395853 NYC Mesh What is your problem??
you are upvoting [things that are not true about us]
Our ASN is AS395853. Our peering info is here- https://nycmesh.net/peering/ We have v4 and v6 space. Our uptime when connecting to supernode1 is significantly better than Time Warner Cable as many of our members have…
That's why we build a hybrid network with p2p and p2mp backhaul.
Our average speeds connecting to our supernodes is around 100Mbps. I'm not sure what you are referring to.
Community networks are pretty common in rural areas in other countries. My favorites are guifi.net and b4rn.org.uk. They both use lots of fiber running through farms.
We tried repeating LinkNYC kiosks a few years ago but it wasn't reliable enough, making it too difficult to support. We have instructions for a DIY connection on our website and a channel on our Slack where you can ask…
BGP is mesh, we also use bmx6
We have a #newjersey channel on our Slack. We need more people there to help organize
https://nycmesh.net/panorama/1.7miles.png That's a LiteBeam Gen1 installed in the east village on 5th St connected to 375 Pearl St downtown. The gen1 actually has a stronger signal than the gen2, so this is a bit better…
Did you read any of our comments?
Volunteers donate their time because they enjoy it. We have so many volunteers it is hard to keep track of them all. Obviously it is more efficient to use volunteers if there are enough. We are considering using…
Netflix standard streaming is 3Mbps, so even with your math (which isn't how bandwidth works) everyone is happy. We've never come anywhere near saturating our gig connection. We monitor it. Each building is limited to…
There are about 10 fiber providers in the city. We've spoken to most of them. It's pretty much impossible for us to lay fiber, so we have to lease it. We'd like to eventually lease a fiber ring across the city so we can…
We originally used the qMp/OpenWRT package that included mdns, which is a version of zeroconf for the internal network. It isn't scaling so we now use our own DNS server to resolve internal addresses on our 10/ network.
We get a lot of support from the NYC networking community, and we have a lot of friends at the NYNOG meetups. Everyone is very helpful and they also want the big ISPs to have some competition, so we get donations from…
Mainly logistics. We've had a huge influx of people wanting to be connected since December, so we've had to add stuff like a ticketing system, inventory tracking and also we're training people to lead installs. It's…
We bypass traditional ISPs by connecting directly at an internet exchange point (DE-CIX IXP) and peering with other networks. This is basically how the internet is formed, by networks peering with each other. We don't…
Yes the noise floor is bad, but we get about a 2 mile range which covers a huge amount of people in Manhattan. The Ubiquiti sector antennas use TDMA so it is not standard 802.11ac.
It's a non-profit
The public access point SSIDs are usually "-NYC Mesh-" or "nycmesh" followed by location.
Our recurring costs are only for the lease at supernode1, which is around $1000/month. Divide that by our member node count (158) multiplied by users of each node ~4, 1000/(158*4)gives you under $2/month per user.…
No you don't need hundreds of thousands. You do need tens of thousands. We've had no downtime this year at supernode1. Yes reliability is a big priority, but it is not a big priority for the big ISPs in NYC. Time Warner…
We are already self funded by individual donations. Every question I answer seems to bring up new objections.
I don't think you get what we are doing at all! Anyway we are in 375 Pearl with a lease and it has most of your long list, diesel generators etc. We compete on price (donation only)
https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/395853 NYC Mesh What is your problem??
you are upvoting [things that are not true about us]
Our ASN is AS395853. Our peering info is here- https://nycmesh.net/peering/ We have v4 and v6 space. Our uptime when connecting to supernode1 is significantly better than Time Warner Cable as many of our members have…
That's why we build a hybrid network with p2p and p2mp backhaul.
Our average speeds connecting to our supernodes is around 100Mbps. I'm not sure what you are referring to.