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The goal of this page is to list existing meshes, active mesh groups and failed community wireless groups so that we can learn from their failures and successes and possibly their source code and configuration parameters.
The goal of this page is to list existing meshes, active mesh groups and failed community wireless groups so that we can learn from their failures and successes and possibly their source code and configuration parameters.


Project meshnet has a [https://wiki.projectmeshnet.org/List_of_Mesh_Locals list of wireless mesh projects].
Project Meshnet has a [https://wiki.projectmeshnet.org/List_of_Mesh_Locals list of wireless mesh projects].


Wikipedia has a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_community_networks_by_region list of wireless community networks by region].
Wikipedia has a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_community_networks_by_region list of wireless community networks by region].
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= Active meshes =
= Active meshes =


== [http://buenosaireslibre.org/ Buenos Aires Libre] - Argentina ==
==Europe==
 
=== [http://ninux.org Ninux] - Italy ===
*Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
*Size: 200 active nodes (but 720 total)
*Protocol:
*[http://mapa.buenosaireslibre.org/ Map]
*Status: Likely in decline.
:Few of total nodes active. General meeting still being held (probably yearly), yet no-one signed up for general meeting attendance three days before it was to be held.
 
== [http://www.bogota-mesh.org/ Bogota Mesh] - Columbia ==
 
*Location: Bogota, Columbia
*Size: 30 nodes. Not sure how many active.
*Protocol: B.A.T.M.A.N. (not sure if -adv or -exp or normal).
*[http://www.bogota-mesh.org/en/node/36 Map]
 
== [http://ninux.org Ninux] - Italy ==


*Location: Italy. Many cities.
*Location: Italy. Many cities.
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*Presentations for [https://gitorious.org/eigennet/notcode/source/3d8ccf33b91414bf1d54cca787131165f798ad3d:eigennet_presentations EigenNet]
*Presentations for [https://gitorious.org/eigennet/notcode/source/3d8ccf33b91414bf1d54cca787131165f798ad3d:eigennet_presentations EigenNet]


== Freifunk - Germany ==
=== Freifunk - Germany ===


*Location: Germany. Several cities.
*Location: Germany. Several cities.
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Freifunk is actually both an organization, a firmware and a whole set of meshes, some of them interlinked, mostly in Germany. We have a [[Mesh/Freifunk|whole page about the project]].
Freifunk is actually both an organization, a firmware and a whole set of meshes, some of them interlinked, mostly in Germany. We have a [[Mesh/Freifunk|whole page about the project]].


== AWMN - Greece ==
=== AWMN - Greece ===


*Location: Athens, Greece
*Location: Athens, Greece
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*[http://wind.awmn.net/?page=nodes Map]]
*[http://wind.awmn.net/?page=nodes Map]]


== Funkfeuer - Austria ==
=== Funkfeuer - Austria ===


*Location: Austria. Several cities.
*Location: Austria. Several cities.
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*Map: [https://map.funkfeuer.at/wien/ Vienna]
*Map: [https://map.funkfeuer.at/wien/ Vienna]


== wlan slovenija - Slovenia ==
=== wlan slovenija - Slovenia ===


*Location: Slovenia
*Location: Slovenia
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*[http://dev.wlan-si.net/ Technology wiki]
*[http://dev.wlan-si.net/ Technology wiki]


= Community Wireless Projects (not mesh) =
==South America==
=== Altermundi - Argentina ===
 
*Location: Argentina
*Size:
*Protocol:
*Map:
*[http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://quintanalibre.org.ar/article/por-que-veo-esta-pagina-si-yo-queria-entrar-a-otra/&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dquintana%2Blibre%2Borg%2Bar%2Bportada%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3DOnN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official Captive Portal]
*[http://altermundi.net Website]
*See [http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/ excerpts of Nico's interview with Gordon Cook]
 
=== [http://buenosaireslibre.org/ Buenos Aires Libre] - Argentina ===


== [http://www.myrtletown.net/wifi.php  myrtletown.net] - California ==
*Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
*Size: 200 active nodes (but 720 total)
*Protocol:
*[http://mapa.buenosaireslibre.org/ Map]
*Status: Likely in decline.
:Few of total nodes active. General meeting still being held (probably yearly), yet no-one signed up for general meeting attendance three days before it was to be held.
 
=== [http://www.bogota-mesh.org/ Bogota Mesh] - Columbia ===


*Location: Murtletown, California
*Location: Bogota, Columbia
*Size: 1 WRT54GS router with a 1 watt amplifier on a tall mast.
*Size: 30 nodes. Not sure how many active.
:Actually covers a good part of the tiny town!
*Protocol: B.A.T.M.A.N. (not sure if -adv or -exp or normal).
*[http://www.myrtletown.net/pics/myrtletown_wifi_coverage_map_r2.jpg Map]
*[http://www.bogota-mesh.org/en/node/36 Map]


= Planned Meshes =
= Planned Meshes =
== [http://redhookwifi.org Red Hook Wifi] - Brooklyn ==
*Location: Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY, USA
*Size: 1 main node at the Red Hook Initiative (community center), 1 on a nearby autobody shop (as of mid-2013)
*Protocol: OLSR
*Organizations: [http://rhicenter.org Red Hook Initiative (RHI)], [http://rhidigitalstewards.wordpress.com/ RHI Digital Stewards], [http://commotionwireless.org Commotion / Open Technology Institute]
*Tidepools Map of Community: http://www.redhookwifi.org/#/map
*Notes: Used after Hurricane Sandy - SMS plugin created to enable people to text needs/information to first responders based out of the RHI.
== [http://milemesh.com MileMesh] - Hoboken ==
*Location: Hoboken, NJ, USA
*Size: 0 nodes so far
*Protocol: OLSR
*Firmware: [https://github.com/opentechinstitute Commotion Github]
*[http://commotionwireless.net Commotion Wireless]


== [http://nightwing.lugro-mesh.org.ar/en/ LUGRo-Mesh] - Argentina ==
== [http://nightwing.lugro-mesh.org.ar/en/ LUGRo-Mesh] - Argentina ==
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*Protocol: unknown
*Protocol: unknown
*Firmware: unknown
*Firmware: unknown
*Organizations: Project Meshnet
*Irc: Chicagomeshnet on irc.efnet.net
*Irc: Chicagomeshnet on irc.efnet.net
*[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/chicagomeshnet MailingList] [http://reddit.com/r/ChicagoMeshNet Reddit] [http://karmanebula.com/cmn-map/ Map]
*[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/chicagomeshnet MailingList] [http://reddit.com/r/ChicagoMeshNet Reddit] [http://karmanebula.com/cmn-map/ Map]
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* Protocol: OLSR
* Protocol: OLSR
* Firmware: Commotion
* Firmware: Commotion
* Organizations: Meta Mesh
* A [http://www.metamesh.org/ META MESH] project
* A [http://www.metamesh.org/ META MESH] project
* irc://irc.freenode.net/pittmesh
* irc://irc.freenode.net/pittmesh
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One of the main organizers, Rob Flickenger, wrote the O'Reilly book [http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596002046.do Building Wireless Community Networks] (published 2001). We should find him and ask him why it failed. His website is http://hackerfriendly.com
One of the main organizers, Rob Flickenger, wrote the O'Reilly book [http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596002046.do Building Wireless Community Networks] (published 2001). We should find him and ask him why it failed. His website is http://hackerfriendly.com
== [http://www.myrtletown.net/wifi.php  myrtletown.net] - California ==
*Location: Murtletown, California
*Size: 1 WRT54GS router with a 1 watt amplifier on a tall mast.
:Actually covers a good part of the tiny town!
*[http://www.myrtletown.net/pics/myrtletown_wifi_coverage_map_r2.jpg Map]

Revision as of 01:50, 14 December 2013

The goal of this page is to list existing meshes, active mesh groups and failed community wireless groups so that we can learn from their failures and successes and possibly their source code and configuration parameters.

Project Meshnet has a list of wireless mesh projects.

Wikipedia has a list of wireless community networks by region.

Active meshes

Europe

Ninux - Italy

  • Location: Italy. Many cities.
  • Size: About 200 nodes.
  • Protocol: OLSR
  • Map
  • Presentations for EigenNet

Freifunk - Germany

  • Location: Germany. Several cities.
  • Size: Over 600 nodes in Berlin and over 400 nodes in Leipzig according to the OSLR about page.
  • Protocol: Mostly OLSR, but some cities use batman-adv.
  • Map: Berlin
  • Note: Not one big mesh, but several meshes in several cities.

Freifunk is actually both an organization, a firmware and a whole set of meshes, some of them interlinked, mostly in Germany. We have a whole page about the project.

AWMN - Greece

  • Location: Athens, Greece
  • Size: Over 2400 nodes (according to their map, mid-2013).
  • Protocol: OLSR (according to the OSLR about page.
  • Map]

Funkfeuer - Austria

  • Location: Austria. Several cities.
  • Size: ?
  • Map: Vienna

wlan slovenija - Slovenia

South America

Altermundi - Argentina

Buenos Aires Libre - Argentina

  • Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Size: 200 active nodes (but 720 total)
  • Protocol:
  • Map
  • Status: Likely in decline.
Few of total nodes active. General meeting still being held (probably yearly), yet no-one signed up for general meeting attendance three days before it was to be held.

Bogota Mesh - Columbia

  • Location: Bogota, Columbia
  • Size: 30 nodes. Not sure how many active.
  • Protocol: B.A.T.M.A.N. (not sure if -adv or -exp or normal).
  • Map

Planned Meshes

Red Hook Wifi - Brooklyn

MileMesh - Hoboken

LUGRo-Mesh - Argentina

  • Location: Rosario, Argentina
  • Size: 0 nodes so far
  • Protocol: B.A.T.M.A.N. Experimental (bmx)
  • Firmware: Nightwing their own distro.

ChicagoMeshnet - Chicago

  • Location: Chicago, Chicago
  • Size: 0 nodes so far
  • Protocol: unknown
  • Firmware: unknown
  • Organizations: Project Meshnet
  • Irc: Chicagomeshnet on irc.efnet.net
  • MailingList Reddit Map

PittMesh - Pittsburgh

Active non-mesh community wireless projects

Guifi - Spain

  • Location: Spain
  • Size: Over 21,000 active nodes. Mostly in Barcelona.
  • Website
  • Note: Not sure if this is a mesh, but it seems to be huge!
Collaborating with The Free Network Foundation to establish guifi.us: A self-service and full-service network planning, provisioning, and funding tool.

Inactive / failed local networks

Roofnet - Massachussets

  • Location: MIT and surrounding area, Massachussets.
  • Protocol: ExOR
  • Status: Website spews errors and was lasted updated in 2006.

Roofnet turned into Meraki which used to be awesome, but became less awesome and eventually was bought by Cisco.

NetEquality - Portland

  • Location: Low-income housing communities in Portland.
  • Protocol: Not a mesh.
  • Status: May still be active, but front page lists a 2007 article as recent.

CUWiN - Illinois

  • Location: Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
  • Status: Website down.
  • Funding: Received ~$870,000 from 2003 to 2006

Funding overview

Archive.org's SFLAN - San Francisco

  • Website
  • Began around the time of the failure of attempted SF municipal wifi in 2007 - grew to 50 nodes by February and then shrunk to 4 by October.
  • Relied on miles-long line-of-sight connections for the backbone link. Noise and interference due to competing wi-fi signals made many of these links nonfunctional.
  • Note: Not 100% sure this is inactive.

NoCat - Sebastopol, CA

NoCat's goal is to bring you Infinite Bandwidth Everywhere for Free.

  • Last news article was posted in February 2006.
  • Website went down some time in late 2012.
  • nocat.net on archive.org
  • Seems like it wasn't a mesh

One of the main organizers, Rob Flickenger, wrote the O'Reilly book Building Wireless Community Networks (published 2001). We should find him and ask him why it failed. His website is http://hackerfriendly.com

myrtletown.net - California

  • Location: Murtletown, California
  • Size: 1 WRT54GS router with a 1 watt amplifier on a tall mast.
Actually covers a good part of the tiny town!
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