nycmesh

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by nycmesh 5y ago
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.
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by nycmesh 5y ago
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 other members ab
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by nycmesh 8y ago
BGP is mesh, we also use bmx6
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by nycmesh 8y ago
We have a #newjersey channel on our Slack. We need more people there to help organize
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by nycmesh 8y ago
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
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by nycmesh 8y ago
Did you read any of our comments?
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by nycmesh 8y ago
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 contractors for some huge pr
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by nycmesh 8y ago
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 their own ro
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by nycmesh 8y ago
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 cut c
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by nycmesh 8y ago
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.
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by nycmesh 8y ago
Thanks!
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by nycmesh 8y ago
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 quite a few people. So
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by nycmesh 8y ago
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 norm
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by nycmesh 8y ago
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 need this ISP lay
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by nycmesh 8y ago
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.
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by nycmesh 8y ago
It's a non-profit
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by nycmesh 8y ago
The public access point SSIDs are usually "-NYC Mesh-" or "nycmesh" followed by location.
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by nycmesh 8y ago
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. Members usu
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by nycmesh 8y ago
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 Cable (now
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by nycmesh 8y ago
We are already self funded by individual donations. Every question I answer seems to bring up new objections.
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by nycmesh 8y ago
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)
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by nycmesh 8y ago
https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/395853 NYC Mesh What is your problem??
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by nycmesh 8y ago
you are upvoting [things that are not true about us]
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by nycmesh 8y ago
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 r
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by nycmesh 8y ago
That's why we build a hybrid network with p2p and p2mp backhaul.
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by nycmesh 8y ago
Our average speeds connecting to our supernodes is around 100Mbps. I'm not sure what you are referring to.
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by nycmesh 8y ago
We are a hybrid of mesh, p2p and point to multi-point (sector antennas). Whatever is most appropriate to give the best connection for reasonable price.
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by nycmesh 8y ago
We are replacing ISPs in NYC for our members. This is now, not the future. The main thing holding us back is scaling up the number of installs. All networks, including us, add to this expensive infrastructure. The difference with our infras
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by nycmesh 11y ago
There a many huge mesh networks all over the world, just not so many in this country. Guifi in Spain has 29,208 active nodes so there is no argument that mesh doesn't scale. https://guifi.net/en/node/38392
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by nycmesh 11y ago
Oops, that is my server! I'll fix it today. What café are you in? We don't even know about this access point. Try chat.mesh

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