WavesMesh: Pay-what-you-can community-owned ISP for Baltimore
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WavesMesh: Pay-what-you-can community-owned ISP for Baltimore
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Re: WavesMesh: Pay-what-you-can community-owned ISP for Baltimore
#2Have you registered to accept Lifeline subsidies? There is one ISP I know of that does Ubiquiti deployments in MDUs that have a high proportion of Lifeline qualifying residences, as it is an economical way to provide very fast broadband to the poorest members of society.
https://www.fcc.gov/general/lifeline-program-low-income-cons...
Re: WavesMesh: Pay-what-you-can community-owned ISP for Baltimore
#3Love this. How long has this been going for? Also excuse my ignorance of mesh networks: how does the mesh connect back to the internet? Is that going through an ISP, or are you trying to circumvent ISPs altogether?
Re: WavesMesh: Pay-what-you-can community-owned ISP for Baltimore
#4I wonder if this is economically viable.
Re: WavesMesh: Pay-what-you-can community-owned ISP for Baltimore
#5I wonder if this is economically viable.
What happens when freeloaders show up? Perpetual energy?
Re: WavesMesh: Pay-what-you-can community-owned ISP for Baltimore
#6You shouldn't publicly post your EIN on your web page. It is similar to a business SSN, while it is not truly private, there is more you can lose by having it publicly display then just redacting it all-together.
Re: WavesMesh: Pay-what-you-can community-owned ISP for Baltimore
#7Love this. How long has this been going for? Also excuse my ignorance of mesh networks: how does the mesh connect back to the internet? Is that going through an ISP, or are you trying to circumvent ISPs altogether?
> how does the mesh connect back to the internet?
The same way any other network connects to the Internet, through an ISP.
Nominally you can be an ISP yourself, but you still need to buy capacity from other network providers.
Re: WavesMesh: Pay-what-you-can community-owned ISP for Baltimore
#8You shouldn't publicly post your EIN on your web page. It is similar to a business SSN, while it is not truly private, there is more you can lose by having it publicly display then just redacting it all-together.
Non profit EINs are public knowledge. Perhaps they are non-profit?
Re: WavesMesh: Pay-what-you-can community-owned ISP for Baltimore
#9If anyone is interested, guifi.net has been functioning for years here in Spain / EU. Works good, we even have a internet provider that can connect you using guifi.net. Basically, it gives you access to their exit nodes instead of exits that are private. There is also ongoing fiber rollout in rural areas and some dark fiber usage in the city.
Re: WavesMesh: Pay-what-you-can community-owned ISP for Baltimore
#10I'm curious what sort of bandwidth they supply? Their suggested monthly donation of $20/mo is quite reasonable (less than what I pay!), and presumably that subsidizes those less able to pay. (Though, I presume they wouldn't mind a larger donation, if one made one.)
(I'm not in the Baltimore area, so I can't really make use, but this is a neat-sounding project.)