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We're in need of a handful of new folks to host home nodes and possibly also extender nodes. To be a good home node host, we ask that you be:
We're in need of a handful of new folks to host home nodes and possibly also extender nodes. To be a good home node host, we ask that you be:
* Willing to share some amount of your bandwidth. It doesn't have to be a lot, but 1-2mbps can go a long way for someone who doesn't otherwise have any connectivity.
* Willing to share some amount of your bandwidth. It doesn't have to be a lot, but 1-2mbps can go a long way for someone who doesn't otherwise have any connectivity.
* Reliably in contact so that we can ask you to do simple things like reboot the router (hopefully rarely if at all), and check connectivity
* Reliably in contact so that we can ask you to do simple things like reboot the router (hopefully rarely if at all), and check connectivity
* Interested in providing some feedback as to how you think the experience is and how it could be improved
* Interested in providing some feedback as to how you think the experience is and how it could be improved


To be an extender node host we ask that you be all those things and also have access to your roof and/or another high point on your house/building/etc and be willing to mount a (pretty small) antenna there and run an ethernet cable from your home node (probably near your router) to that roof location.
To be an extender node host we ask that you be all those things and also have access to your roof and/or another high point on your house/building/etc and be willing to mount a (pretty small) antenna there and run an ethernet cable from your home node (probably near your router) to that roof location.