I've set up two NYC mesh installations in separate buildings that I lived and both nodes had great internet speeds. I recommend everyone in NYC set one up where they live.
@@spiralfractr It ranges from 60 mbps to 1 Gbps for wifi and upto 20 Gbps for fiber. Also like any other wifi signal, it heavily depends on the area. If you live in Manhattan, then speeds will obviously be good, but in places like Harlem or Brooklyn, it can be slightly less outside of the hotspots. .
@@Calypso993 It's wireless. It's not gonna be cabled-level latency from client to first hop, I'd expect something similar to the numbers Starlink's touting. That being said, this is clearly meant as accessible internet for the under-served first and foremost, so that people can actually do a lot of important things that are increasingly becoming impossible to do without internet (like even being able to submit an application to a job). I seriously doubt an extra 10ms is gonna mess with your AWP peeks sans placebo/nocebo effect unless you're at the very least ranked LEM, if that's why you're asking.
Can’t believe this guys are saying WiFi is a human right when there’s people without food or a home. You won’t die without WiFi, but food in the other hand. That’s a killer.
its interesting to see a wisp (wireless internet service provider) growing in a city like new York with well established existing infrastructure. cool none the less.
Are you friggin' kiddin' me ? Neighborhood networks appeared like mushrooms after the rain in Romania's 90's and 00's .. They became obsolete when the big corps bought them all and preserved the same prices . I'm glad it becomes a thing now , but abroad this time .
@corey Babcock my experience with lte has been shoddy at best, I had a lot of lag spikes during gaming, and short cut outs during video calls, though I don't know what its like at other locations
I love this!!! I only hope that he's being preemptive in countering the big tech providers(Verizon and Comcast) who aren't strangers to lobbying and taking independent Internet movements through the courts to suck them dry. They only like each other as competition.
We got a place in Blissville between sunnyside and greenpoint with a large rooftop mast we installed. Would love to see if can offer a node. So wonderful seeing growth of #nycmesh ... you people are making a real difference. Thank you.
Make this a worldwide organization (volunteered), helping other groups (in other parts of world) facing same issues, ramp up such meshes easily.... loved the docs on website though.
Dealing with amazing people working in this industry on a daily basis, I can say that I'm happy this is reaching mainstream media finally Hoping that connectivity as a human right is not something far from our reach
I’d really like to share my home internet with my neighbours as I have more bandwidth than I need most of the time. I’m worried about someone downloading illegal content and it being traced to me. It’s a shame, I live in a very high density area. Id happily pay for it for the common good.
Keep records and connection logs, not saying log traffic or DNS requests but that should be enough if anything did happen you can prove you're not the sole user of the connection.
I want to host my own internet for myself and neighbors since we have nothing great for internet here. The problem i am having is the cost for fiber buildout. We have 2 good fiber companies I'd like to use but the build out they claim will cost over $100k to bring fiber 1 mile.
Wow, I just checked their site: Free with a suggested donation. That is, free for both installation (recommended donation of $290) and monthly service fee (no specific donation recommended). Heck dudes, if I was in NYC, you could have my same Comcast fees to help the organization expand faster, because screw the corporate a-holes from Comcast (oh, sorry, _XFINITY_), Time Warner, Charter, etc that have tried to maintain their localized monopolies. Edit: added "localized" before "monopolies".
Internet is the fundamental rights of human being like water, electricity, gas. Kudos to the NYC mesh team to take completely different route and refraining from corporate greed.
@@IvanAkinfiev I think he means as in it's illegal for ISPs to not repair blackouts after a certain amount of time because of consumer protection laws (failure to provide service one pays for)
I am really impressed with your hard work bro... I am from the Gambia 🇬🇲 (West Africa)... We have the #worst and most #expensive internet in Africa... I wish to have you and your team the #Gambia 🇬🇲
The internet is literally cables and servers commutating with eachother. The world wide Web is the websites and web pages we see on our screens (every time we visit them).
I was wondering this whole time : “Are these landlords just allowing roof access for free, or does NYC Mesh have a profit sharing agreement?” I hope to see them easily be able to give internet to each apartment in a building. Would be great to stick it to cable and use Ethernet over coax / MoCA.
Hey, I'm from the other side of the world and I love this work. I have one question! When the weather is really bad ( I know in NYC tends to snow a lot and rain aswell) how does that affect the signal? What equipment is being used to mitigate those environmental effects?
Our sector antennas are 5 GHz which is fine in the rain. Our gigabit backhaul is 60 and 24 GHz which is affected by rain. We set up lots of redundant connections so if the 60 GHz goes down there will be a 5Ghz backup connection to take over. Also we try to keep distances short on the 60 GHz.
Gonna depend on a lot of variables, like is your building getting a full fiber, you grabbing from a neighbor, etc... but def much faster than crappy dsl where verizon doesnt offer fios and no cable offered. Like 50+Mbps
Table Top, the local ISP in Seligman, unwittingly got themselves a monopoly after Verizon decided they didn't want to go through the trouble of supplying a rural area. Thankfully we have Starlink, but your efforts in New York are still most commendable, and very necessary to combat the greed of ISPs.
A few things... 1. More people need to hear about this. 2. There needs to be an easy way to donate. 3. There needs to be a training program for high school kids and kits for young people to get this going. Those three things would turn this into an unstoppable movement in cities nationwide. The problem would then be to keep it pure and out of the hands of the big ISPs because the only reason this still exists is because it's tiny and the ISPs don't care yet.
Wow I love in Washington Heights but I don't have internet only on my phone plan I'm gonna look into this mesh thing I'm gonna need it for School when I start hopefully it's available up here. This is so awesome 😎
In Indonesia, if you are not in the mainland of Java, there is only one state-owned ISP which provides 20 Mbps for eqv. USD27 and 400GB FUP with many intermittent problems every single month. They ban this kind of thing where you share your internet with people.
This is beautiful, but I don't understand how regular wifi isn't saturated if you're using it for backbone links? I saw the mmwave antennas but not every installation had it.
this is great. wish we had this in Seattle. I think a LOT of people would sign up. and lots of tech-savvy people around. ... cause really, screw comcast and the rest. biggest red flag is that the industry sells their plans by a *maximum* speed instead of a *minimum* speed.
I feel traditional providers failing to keep up is the same reason why Africa has some of the best connectivity and that Is that og providers have tonnes of equipment that cost a lot and scrapping it all and starting again isn't a feasible option. This NYC mesh is starting with the newer technology and can set it up in a way that the of providers currently can't.
I wish there was something like this for rural areas. Verizon was the only provider in my area for at least a decade, and they continued to raise prices and never repair broken lines. It was copper wire, so on a good day I could get 5 mbps with outages every hour or so.
I would love to help, im obsessed with network infrastructure but i dont have the experience. This would honestly be the next best thing and i would be so happy to be a part of it
Every time I see video like this I think I'm living in some sort of safe bubble. Gosh, in Europe we dont have such problems, no internet is like a third world for us, even smallest villages here have fast and cheap internet. Its really scary how things look in USA :(
it's not nearly as bad as it seems. usa has some isp problems, but in places like nyc most people have the ability to get wifi. the place i'm staying at has nyc mesh and 100+ private wifi routers
It's a shame that volunteers are needed. You guys really have a third world infrastructure and predatorial practices. Here in France, fiber is 20-30 euros a months MAX. Not even a "socialized" policy, just healthy and fair competition brought the prices down.
Third world infrastructure in America ? And you’re from France 😂 Dude, the technology and infrastructure we had 100 years ago is still far superior than anything France will ever accomplish. We’ve been to every planet in the universe, every company including technology and infrastructure is located in America, we built cars that could drive themselves, we have a helicopter on the planet of Mars France, France of all places 😂, dude, you’re a comedian. Every aspect of technology on earth was made by us, shut up.
This is a start to a solution to a much greater problem. One day, hopefully, the "mesh" will be so widespread that it's connection to the contemporary "internet" can be severed, and the "mesh" will BE the NEW internet.
But who gives you access to the net? i mean the servers only has a super high cost and also how do you make yourself a provider? do the users have static ip or they share the public use of a big one or they just randomly get one?
We peer through an Internet Exchange Point (IXP). Peering is free. We also have donated transit and IXP connections in the data centers. We actually pay nothing for bandwidth at the moment. Bandwidth is cheap in data centers and we may have to pay in the future. We can give you a static IP if you really need it but generally you get a 10.x private address.
It can be done anywhere you have access to a fast backhaul connection. They're using unlicensed spectrum with commodity Ubiquiti point-to-point equipment.
how about regulation in NYC?? Is it ok to create a mesh network and share the bandwidth from intermet service provider?? if the answer is yes, that awesome.. in our country indonesia (bali), we can't do that because of strict of regulation from communication goverment.. proud of you guys..
awesome project love every single aspect of it! but it kinda makes you think how there’s literally an internet problem in THE MOST famous city in america. infrastructure is crumbling.
Let's get something clear here, in Houston in the suburbs (we're internet is more expensive to deploy) 1GB fiber is $40 a month, in NYC you keep wanting to tax corporations you don't understand they just roll all those taxes right to the consumer and that's the only reason internet is expensive.
I have a question: what about security? I'm a network engineer student and it looks a little bit scary... Sharing my home internet?! I could do it but there must be a firewall or something...
The problem with USA internet is their providers, they also lack competition (a small bunch of large internet providers own alot of American internet infrastructures) they need to open up the competition and the big providers need to be regulated. The internet in the 21st century should be a fundamental right no matter where you live on earth.
This is amazing. Truly good people out there willing to help. Thank you for what you do. Could change someone’s life. This could be the next Einstein or Steve Wozniak or satoshi that has access to Internet because of you
Just curious about consumer protection law of America??? Because one time I loss my internet connection and the provider failed to fixed my internet for 1 week. I called the office on the 8th day of no internet threatening them that i gonna report them to National Telecommunications Authority if they not fix my internet as soon as possible. The same day they sent a technician and they gave me a 3 months charge free internet lol.
But it must be terrible, people who have no idea about radio networks are doing it, they probably shred the whole band at maximum power, probably on compilance-test. We have such networks for a long time, but only those that people who have an idea of what they do have survived.
HAHA, we know what we're doing! We've been doing this for seven years. Do you want to talk about EIRP and our friends at the FCC? We actually do talk to them and there are some specific requirements for devices in NYC, so we know what frequencies to avoid and we run everything at FCC rules for EIRP
I’d be interested in integrating a network similar to Helium that provides access points with directional long range wifi antennas. As a first generation immigrant child (US citizen), I did not have privilege of having home internet via paying for ISP - we were very poor and often barely had enough to pay bills or eat. I learned about long range wifi and used an antenna I built myself to get wifi from a public library or McDonald’s that were both 5-10km away. I have drawn up a few schematics, I’m a physician through schooling but a network architect by trade - I would love to share my vision of a faster more efficient/secure/encrypted network for the general public, especially those who cannot afford ISP broadband.
So let's say a couple of people have a few torrents running, or are streaming 4K videos on a couple of devices, what does that do to everybody else who's on the shared node ?
I've set up two NYC mesh installations in separate buildings that I lived and both nodes had great internet speeds. I recommend everyone in NYC set one up where they live.
Thanks, what's "great" in Mbps?
@@spiralfractr It ranges from 60 mbps to 1 Gbps for wifi and upto 20 Gbps for fiber. Also like any other wifi signal, it heavily depends on the area. If you live in Manhattan, then speeds will obviously be good, but in places like Harlem or Brooklyn, it can be slightly less outside of the hotspots. .
what about latency ?
@@Calypso993 It's wireless. It's not gonna be cabled-level latency from client to first hop, I'd expect something similar to the numbers Starlink's touting. That being said, this is clearly meant as accessible internet for the under-served first and foremost, so that people can actually do a lot of important things that are increasingly becoming impossible to do without internet (like even being able to submit an application to a job). I seriously doubt an extra 10ms is gonna mess with your AWP peeks sans placebo/nocebo effect unless you're at the very least ranked LEM, if that's why you're asking.
@@spiralfractr I mean, I would go as far to say that most residences in America have something below 100mbps.
I really like to see the updates from these kind of projects, keep them coming.
It's dumb, big corporations are better .
@@houseplant1016 more options and compertion is better.
@@houseplant1016 that's a funny joke
I saw a project like this in Detroit and heard that one was being built in NYC and I'm very happy that it is a reality
Can’t believe this guys are saying WiFi is a human right when there’s people without food or a home. You won’t die without WiFi, but food in the other hand. That’s a killer.
@@LeeeroyJenkins well... You won't also die due the lack of privacy or freedom of expression. But those are also human rights.. eh!
@@LeeeroyJenkins You need the internet to find jobs. it's not the 90s anymore gramps.
We've been going for over 7 years!
@@NYCMesh I've really been thinking of switching over :D
Support you guys either way
its interesting to see a wisp (wireless internet service provider) growing in a city like new York with well established existing infrastructure. cool none the less.
Are you friggin' kiddin' me ? Neighborhood networks appeared like mushrooms after the rain in Romania's 90's and 00's .. They became obsolete when the big corps bought them all and preserved the same prices . I'm glad it becomes a thing now , but abroad this time .
That's not how we do things in the US. If big corps want mesh networks gone, they'll just send over their lobbyists to regulate them out of existence!
You think this thing will see the light of day in any US City
@@Eye-it-azz there already are other cities (like detroit) ... and a fair amount of private rural mini meshes exist out there
And the more people add their node to the mesh, the stronger it gets! Decentralization baby!
Internet should be classified as a utility
It was then it was rolled back by trump
Food should be classified as a utility too. That way inept bureaucratic machines and oligopolies can dominate there as well.
This is a must in the 21st century.
@@pseudonym3396 UN Did try and vote for food being a human right. Guess the countries that were against :)
@@nvysel24 you act like trump does everything. You mean people in his administration trump just golfed and ranted on teittwe
This is so admirable, Im so glad great people exist.
I LOVE THIS PROJECT
^this
This is awesome, I would love to set up a mesh network in Louisa, VA. Most of the town does not have internet... And we are two hours from DC.
@corey Babcock my experience with lte has been shoddy at best, I had a lot of lag spikes during gaming, and short cut outs during video calls, though I don't know what its like at other locations
I love this!!! I only hope that he's being preemptive in countering the big tech providers(Verizon and Comcast) who aren't strangers to lobbying and taking independent Internet movements through the courts to suck them dry. They only like each other as competition.
Me: "So it double the capacity?
My ISP: "Yeah, I'm not even exaggerating"
We got a place in Blissville between sunnyside and greenpoint with a large rooftop mast we installed. Would love to see if can offer a node. So wonderful seeing growth of #nycmesh ... you people are making a real difference. Thank you.
Make this a worldwide organization (volunteered), helping other groups (in other parts of world) facing same issues, ramp up such meshes easily....
loved the docs on website though.
Really curious about Backhaul speeds between a Root AP and Mesh AP (1 Hop setup).
They use 60GHz links for the backhaul, you can see the Ubiquity equipment in the video, it's quite cheap actually.
@@thomascrabtree correct
@@thomascrabtree how much dbm
Thank you motherboard for picking this up.
Dealing with amazing people working in this industry on a daily basis, I can say that I'm happy this is reaching mainstream media finally
Hoping that connectivity as a human right is not something far from our reach
good on you we need to take care of each other because no one else will even if we pay them to do it.
In Norway internet is a fundamental human right and thus subsides by the govt to ensure everyone has it.
Same here in the UK
How do I start this in a different location than NYC? This is cool, I’m very interested in doing this
Such an underrated and awesome thing. Thank you for making the world that much brighter.
I’d really like to share my home internet with my neighbours as I have more bandwidth than I need most of the time. I’m worried about someone downloading illegal content and it being traced to me. It’s a shame, I live in a very high density area. Id happily pay for it for the common good.
If you do set up guest networks or VLANs to separate your main network from the shared one.
Keep records and connection logs, not saying log traffic or DNS requests but that should be enough if anything did happen you can prove you're not the sole user of the connection.
I want to host my own internet for myself and neighbors since we have nothing great for internet here. The problem i am having is the cost for fiber buildout. We have 2 good fiber companies I'd like to use but the build out they claim will cost over $100k to bring fiber 1 mile.
One easier method is take a spot closer to their drop and then wireless your haul to your dc
I really love watching content like this, I am also small internet provider in our place.
Bravo NYCMesh! Love to support your project and help spread the word!
Wow, I just checked their site: Free with a suggested donation. That is, free for both installation (recommended donation of $290) and monthly service fee (no specific donation recommended).
Heck dudes, if I was in NYC, you could have my same Comcast fees to help the organization expand faster, because screw the corporate a-holes from Comcast (oh, sorry, _XFINITY_), Time Warner, Charter, etc that have tried to maintain their localized monopolies.
Edit: added "localized" before "monopolies".
End screen with all the languages is nice
Internet is the fundamental rights of human being like water, electricity, gas. Kudos to the NYC mesh team to take completely different route and refraining from corporate greed.
Hope one day I can setup something like this in my own country cuz ISP’s have a huge monopoly
Indonesia?
@@enriquemuhammad not indonesia if you are on 'great location' which is possible to have 3+ ISP's around the corner
Never heard of this before! Looking forward to the follow-ups!
Excellent project. Love this.
I like how some stuff (2 weeks with no internet) that happens in the US is outright illegal in developing countries.
Name one law in one country that makes turning the internet off illegal
@@IvanAkinfiev I think he means as in it's illegal for ISPs to not repair blackouts after a certain amount of time because of consumer protection laws (failure to provide service one pays for)
My ISP, charges a 5% premium over other ISPs but guarantees a two hour resolution of any downtime, cables, routers, it's all covered.
@@LouisSubearth precisely it.
Great enterprise! Wish it would spread all over the globe
I love their Place,seems like if your Internet has been lost there's a troubleshooter that you can Call anytime
I am really impressed with your hard work bro... I am from the Gambia 🇬🇲 (West Africa)... We have the #worst and most #expensive internet in Africa... I wish to have you and your team the #Gambia 🇬🇲
Wow...am amazed with what you guys are doing?
i would like to understand more of how a mesh network works and contribute in any way i can, is there a discord for nyc mesh?
The internet is literally cables and servers commutating with eachother. The world wide Web is the websites and web pages we see on our screens (every time we visit them).
I was wondering this whole time :
“Are these landlords just allowing roof access for free, or does NYC Mesh have a profit sharing agreement?”
I hope to see them easily be able to give internet to each apartment in a building. Would be great to stick it to cable and use Ethernet over coax / MoCA.
Hey, I'm from the other side of the world and I love this work. I have one question! When the weather is really bad ( I know in NYC tends to snow a lot and rain aswell) how does that affect the signal? What equipment is being used to mitigate those environmental effects?
Our sector antennas are 5 GHz which is fine in the rain. Our gigabit backhaul is 60 and 24 GHz which is affected by rain. We set up lots of redundant connections so if the 60 GHz goes down there will be a 5Ghz backup connection to take over. Also we try to keep distances short on the 60 GHz.
Please give us more of still connecting
I don't know why I feel like you could be part of a comic book. You are so cool!
What sort of speeds are the endusers looking at with this service?
Gonna depend on a lot of variables, like is your building getting a full fiber, you grabbing from a neighbor, etc... but def much faster than crappy dsl where verizon doesnt offer fios and no cable offered. Like 50+Mbps
I would think under 100 mps
Table Top, the local ISP in Seligman, unwittingly got themselves a monopoly after Verizon decided they didn't want to go through the trouble of supplying a rural area. Thankfully we have Starlink, but your efforts in New York are still most commendable, and very necessary to combat the greed of ISPs.
I feel like this would be an amazing concept to do here in the city
A few things... 1. More people need to hear about this. 2. There needs to be an easy way to donate. 3. There needs to be a training program for high school kids and kits for young people to get this going. Those three things would turn this into an unstoppable movement in cities nationwide. The problem would then be to keep it pure and out of the hands of the big ISPs because the only reason this still exists is because it's tiny and the ISPs don't care yet.
I hope to see more orgs like this come up all of the world. I hope my city could have an organization like this then I can join.
Wow I love in Washington Heights but I don't have internet only on my phone plan I'm gonna look into this mesh thing I'm gonna need it for School when I start hopefully it's available up here. This is so awesome 😎
In Indonesia, if you are not in the mainland of Java, there is only one state-owned ISP which provides 20 Mbps for eqv. USD27 and 400GB FUP with many intermittent problems every single month. They ban this kind of thing where you share your internet with people.
This is beautiful, but I don't understand how regular wifi isn't saturated if you're using it for backbone links? I saw the mmwave antennas but not every installation had it.
That is awesome! Loving it.
this is great. wish we had this in Seattle. I think a LOT of people would sign up. and lots of tech-savvy people around. ... cause really, screw comcast and the rest. biggest red flag is that the industry sells their plans by a *maximum* speed instead of a *minimum* speed.
Yes! Same in the Bay Area. This is super needed
Your using some Unifi equipment very cool.
Reminds me of what they're doing in Cuba for internet
I feel traditional providers failing to keep up is the same reason why Africa has some of the best connectivity and that Is that og providers have tonnes of equipment that cost a lot and scrapping it all and starting again isn't a feasible option. This NYC mesh is starting with the newer technology and can set it up in a way that the of providers currently can't.
Amazing stuff 🙂 hope you reach the whole of the US.. or better all over the world 🌎
Gr8 work, keep it up👍👍
I wish there was something like this for rural areas. Verizon was the only provider in my area for at least a decade, and they continued to raise prices and never repair broken lines. It was copper wire, so on a good day I could get 5 mbps with outages every hour or so.
It can be start one of your own.
I would love to help, im obsessed with network infrastructure but i dont have the experience. This would honestly be the next best thing and i would be so happy to be a part of it
We train people! Many of us had no network experience before starting
Belgrade, Serbia had this 15 years ago
Every time I see video like this I think I'm living in some sort of safe bubble. Gosh, in Europe we dont have such problems, no internet is like a third world for us, even smallest villages here have fast and cheap internet. Its really scary how things look in USA :(
it's not nearly as bad as it seems. usa has some isp problems, but in places like nyc most people have the ability to get wifi. the place i'm staying at has nyc mesh and 100+ private wifi routers
It's a shame that volunteers are needed. You guys really have a third world infrastructure and predatorial practices. Here in France, fiber is 20-30 euros a months MAX. Not even a "socialized" policy, just healthy and fair competition brought the prices down.
size matters. for example, the state of Texas is bigger than all of France.
Third world infrastructure in America ? And you’re from France 😂
Dude, the technology and infrastructure we had 100 years ago is still far superior than anything France will ever accomplish.
We’ve been to every planet in the universe, every company including technology and infrastructure is located in America, we built cars that could drive themselves, we have a helicopter on the planet of Mars
France, France of all places 😂, dude, you’re a comedian.
Every aspect of technology on earth was made by us, shut up.
@@Eye-it-azz Bro, what u smoking lmao
@@thinnedpaints6503
What am i smoking on for stating facts ?
@@Eye-it-azz what's ur data speed and how much you pay mate? And where you are from.
I think it's funny when they say these guys are volunteers someone's making money here! No-doubt-about-it
Sorry, but we are a non-profit with no employees. This will change soon as we are taking on some huge projects that will require employees.
@@NYCMesh that's great more power to you guys
Over here aside of fiber optic which is the common thing, cable, dsl we have WiMax that looks like those antenas.
Shouldn't admit which is your Node. Also, should look at Particle Schematics from the Xenons they made.
I mean great but tmobile 5g already has 300 mbp speeds for home where I live in queens.
Amazing work
This is a start to a solution to a much greater problem. One day, hopefully, the "mesh" will be so widespread that it's connection to the contemporary "internet" can be severed, and the "mesh" will BE the NEW internet.
Yes!!
I wish I could help out. I’m not even from New York but I do live on the east coast. I’d be great to do work that helps others.
Amezing content...
*Amazing
I love those ameizing contents too, bro.
*Ameshing
@@LimitedWard 😂😂😂 you got the spirit!
Awesome, very impressive!
But who gives you access to the net? i mean the servers only has a super high cost and also how do you make yourself a provider? do the users have static ip or they share the public use of a big one or they just randomly get one?
We peer through an Internet Exchange Point (IXP). Peering is free. We also have donated transit and IXP connections in the data centers. We actually pay nothing for bandwidth at the moment. Bandwidth is cheap in data centers and we may have to pay in the future.
We can give you a static IP if you really need it but generally you get a 10.x private address.
UniFi is the backbone for so many of there services
I ❤️NYC MESH!!!
Can this come to like other parts of the country too????!
Can this please come to texas
It can be done anywhere you have access to a fast backhaul connection. They're using unlicensed spectrum with commodity Ubiquiti point-to-point equipment.
W have set up many in NC.
This is amazing 👍🏾
how about regulation in NYC?? Is it ok to create a mesh network and share the bandwidth from intermet service provider?? if the answer is yes, that awesome.. in our country indonesia (bali), we can't do that because of strict of regulation from communication goverment.. proud of you guys..
There is no internet provider in between.
i don't understand, does you subscribe to a fiber broadband and mesh it all over or what? i want to replicate it in my city.
awesome project love every single aspect of it! but it kinda makes you think how there’s literally an internet problem in THE MOST famous city in america. infrastructure is crumbling.
This is what a prop account looks like
Let's get something clear here, in Houston in the suburbs (we're internet is more expensive to deploy) 1GB fiber is $40 a month, in NYC you keep wanting to tax corporations you don't understand they just roll all those taxes right to the consumer and that's the only reason internet is expensive.
I have a question: what about security? I'm a network engineer student and it looks a little bit scary... Sharing my home internet?! I could do it but there must be a firewall or something...
Great one🔥🔥
Great job
Dude, this is so cool #MeshForLife
The problem with USA internet is their providers, they also lack competition (a small bunch of large internet providers own alot of American internet infrastructures) they need to open up the competition and the big providers need to be regulated. The internet in the 21st century should be a fundamental right no matter where you live on earth.
Is there a tutorials that we can follow. In our county we have a slow internet connection and signals.
If it is in Indonesia, it's called as RT-RW Net, or Neighborhood-Net
God damn it, New York! Always on top of your shit... 😌
This is amazing. Truly good people out there willing to help. Thank you for what you do. Could change someone’s life. This could be the next Einstein or Steve Wozniak or satoshi that has access to Internet because of you
Essential service i like that
would love to donate to this project
Just curious about consumer protection law of America??? Because one time I loss my internet connection and the provider failed to fixed my internet for 1 week. I called the office on the 8th day of no internet threatening them that i gonna report them to National Telecommunications Authority if they not fix my internet as soon as possible. The same day they sent a technician and they gave me a 3 months charge free internet lol.
But it must be terrible, people who have no idea about radio networks are doing it, they probably shred the whole band at maximum power, probably on compilance-test. We have such networks for a long time, but only those that people who have an idea of what they do have survived.
HAHA, we know what we're doing! We've been doing this for seven years. Do you want to talk about EIRP and our friends at the FCC? We actually do talk to them and there are some specific requirements for devices in NYC, so we know what frequencies to avoid and we run everything at FCC rules for EIRP
Is it available in bronx borough?
would love to know the wireless equipment being used.
ubiquiti, I have quite a bit myself
I’d be interested in integrating a network similar to Helium that provides access points with directional long range wifi antennas. As a first generation immigrant child (US citizen), I did not have privilege of having home internet via paying for ISP - we were very poor and often barely had enough to pay bills or eat. I learned about long range wifi and used an antenna I built myself to get wifi from a public library or McDonald’s that were both 5-10km away. I have drawn up a few schematics, I’m a physician through schooling but a network architect by trade - I would love to share my vision of a faster more efficient/secure/encrypted network for the general public, especially those who cannot afford ISP broadband.
I d also be interested in setting something like this up.
Me as well.
will the outdoors antenna-setup withstand storm weather conditions?
Yes.
So let's say a couple of people have a few torrents running, or are streaming 4K videos on a couple of devices, what does that do to everybody else who's on the shared node ?
That's asked a lot but it actually hasn't been a problem. We're always working on increasing our bandwidth.
It is called traffic shaping on each CPE. So that will not be a problem.
Great idea for the people
Very inspiring