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Adding a new blog post about monitoring, new firmware builds, and looking for new node hosts!
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=Alpha Testing Network= | |||
We've been doing alpha testing on our what's looking to be the network v0.2 for the last couple months. A lot of our firmware/etc code has been tightened up and we're starting to get good results. There are obviously a lot of metrics that are worth considering when evaluating the success of a network, but uptime is a good start, and we're finally getting 90%+ uptime on all of our nodes. That might not sound impressive, but these are pieces of hardware that are hosted at various folks houses, so coordinating the reboot of a router that's in someone's living room can be a challenging ordeal. For those that are interested, graphs from our monitoring server are available here: | |||
Smokeping (latency graphs) http://monitor.sudomesh.org/smokeping/smokeping.cgi?target=Mesh | |||
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Cacti (traffic and some hardware measurements): http://monitor.sudomesh.org/cacti/graph_view.php?action=tree&tree_id=1&leaf_id=45 | |||
We'v been uploading the latest versions of our firmware as binaries to: | |||
http://builds.sudomesh.org/builds | |||
Home Node firmwares are for TP-Link wdr3500, 3600, and 4300 as well as MyNet N600 and N750 routers. | |||
Extender Node firmwares are known to mostly work for Ubiquiti Picostation M2, Bullet M2 and M5, Powerbridge M2 and M5, and Nanostation M2 and M5. | |||
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. | |||
- 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 | |||
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. | |||
If that sounds like you, get in touch: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh#Join_Us | |||
At the moment, we're providing the hardware, so you'll be hosting $50-$150 worth of equipment which in many cases can significantly improve coverage in your own home! | |||
=Building out our backbone...= | =Building out our backbone...= | ||