That's all great IF you live in a new building that has ethernet throughout. I live in central London where there's fiber on my street and yet I can only get ADSL @ max 8MB/s. I'd happily pay some office next door to share their gigabit fibre with me over wifi. Why hasn't anyone solved this?
New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web
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Re: New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web
#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
At a certain scale they will hire from the same pool as the ISPs. Labor is never saved, it's just moved around. Cooperatives are always better than traditional for-profit companies because you dont have an executive class that does nothing but soak up value generated by the laborers. At very worst, this sort of volunteer operation will not change the relationship the workers have with their labor and only change who'…
Cooperatives are for profit companies. I'm unsure why you think they're not or why they did not fall under my definition of 'for profit' company. That being said. Cooperatives do have executive classes and they do soak up value from labor Also traditional for profit companies would theoretically allow local stakeholders to reap profits but I do agree that due to unjust sec rules about accredited investors designed to…
Well ok, but I never implied (or meant to) that co-operatives aren't trying to generate profit for reasons that include less of that profit generation ending up in the hands of people who do less, at least in the co-ops im familiar with. They are more efficient than the predecessor organization style.
I definitely did imply that they had no executive class, though, which is wrong.
Re: New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web
#213Shameless plug: My company Althea ( https://althea.net ) is making router firmware that makes it easy to people to set up incentivized mesh networks in their communities. It allows routers to pay each other for bandwidth which means that everyone hosting a node earns money for the packets they forward. We have 2 networks live, one in rural Oregon and one in Medellin, Colombia. Also, 4 more networks people are current…
Great post by NYC Mesh on why companies like Althea are a total scams or run by morons (probably both) --> https://www.nycmesh.net/blog/meshcoin
/u/woah Thoughts?
Re: New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web
#214Anyone know what hardware these Mesh networks use?
Re: New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web
#215Shameless plug: My company Althea ( https://althea.net ) is making router firmware that makes it easy to people to set up incentivized mesh networks in their communities. It allows routers to pay each other for bandwidth which means that everyone hosting a node earns money for the packets they forward. We have 2 networks live, one in rural Oregon and one in Medellin, Colombia. Also, 4 more networks people are current…
All yall talking about altruism but no one is really making internet faster and more affordable. This shit is revolutionary, and the system it sets up is going to be the backbone of a network of Co-ops in the next 10 years. A parallel economy is possible.