NYC Mesh – community-owned network to replace your current internet connection
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Re: NYC Mesh – community-owned network to replace your current internet connection
#2This doesn't seem to actually be a mesh network.
Re: NYC Mesh – community-owned network to replace your current internet connection
#3Stuff like this make me long to live in NYC. Only city in the US with the density, technical expertise, and money for this kind of thing to happen.
Re: NYC Mesh – community-owned network to replace your current internet connection
#4Cool initiative based on positive ideals. From a practical perspective, NYC citizens have a number of good options for internet access; however, perhaps learnings from this community project can be brought to more needy areas outside the US.
Re: NYC Mesh – community-owned network to replace your current internet connection
#5I love the idea but how do you connect to the greater internet? What will happen when you get a request to say what user was running on a certain day talking to whatever, or handle NSLs?
Re: NYC Mesh – community-owned network to replace your current internet connection
#6This doesn't seem to actually be a mesh network.
Can you please elaborate?
Re: NYC Mesh – community-owned network to replace your current internet connection
#7I love the idea but how do you connect to the greater internet? What will happen when you get a request to say what user was running on a certain day talking to whatever, or handle NSLs?
From the article:
"The network connects directly to the internet backbone, so we do not rely on an ISP."
Their peering policy: https://nycmesh.net/peering/
Re: NYC Mesh – community-owned network to replace your current internet connection
#8This doesn't seem to actually be a mesh network.
From the article:
"All of our network nodes cooperate in the distribution of data, and the network can also function independently in case of emergencies or internet shutdown."
Sounds fairly meshy to me.
Re: NYC Mesh – community-owned network to replace your current internet connection
#9this seems freaking rad.
Re: NYC Mesh – community-owned network to replace your current internet connection
#10Cool initiative based on positive ideals. From a practical perspective, NYC citizens have a number of good options for internet access; however, perhaps learnings from this community project can be brought to more needy areas outside the US.
Do you live in NYC? I do, and I don't have at all what I'd call "a number of good options" for internet access. In my area, there's two companies who operate similar to a monopoly (Verizon and Optimum), and regularly raise prices arbitrarily and often for no reason.