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The main problem is organizing. Legal and technical problems are easy by comparison. I wrote a guide here for starting your own network- https://www.nycmesh.net/blog/how/

My quote was a bit out of context. I was talking about how if it rained my old Time Warner Cable ("Spectrum") connection would go down for a day. This is a known TWC problem in dow…

We haven't reached much past 14th St yet. We are working on some big projects uptown.

Yes, I don't think Verizon would peer with us, but we peer with some very large companies like Google, Apple, Akamai. The full list is here- https://www.nycmesh.net/peering

Our IXP connection to DE-CIX is donated. Our transit is also donated from Packet.net, Webair and Pilot. Yes we have our own ASN.

DE-CIX is our donated IXP connection. We connect via peering and transit at an internet exchange point (IXP). We don't pay for an ISP connection.

Thanks!

Supernodes are connected by fiber so they can be any distance apart. The two main areas we have connected are the Lower East Side and Chinatown in Manhattan (mixed income) and in B…

We have a channel on Slack dedicated to New Jersey, so we are working on it. slack.nycmesh.net #n-newjersey

We have 2 new hubs near Tompkins, one on Ave A and another on 7th St