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.

Wikipedia has a list of wireless community networks by region.

Active meshes

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

Ninux - Italy

Location: Italy. Many cities.
Size: About 200 nodes.
Protocol: OLSR
Map

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

Planned Meshes

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.

Active non-mesh community wireless projects

Guifi - Spain

Location: Spain
Website
Note: Not sure if this is a mesh, but it seems to be huge!

Inactive / failed local networks

Archive.org's SFLAN - San Francisco

Website
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

Mesh/Other mesh projects

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