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'''These articles (and many new ones) can now be read at [https://peoplesopen.net/blog peoplesopen.net/blog]!''' | |||
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=Sharing Internet with the Neighborhood= | |||
I ([[User:Maxb|Maxb]]) put a bullet m2 on my roof as an [[Mesh/Home and extender nodes#Extender_nodes|extender node]]. We have a bunch of these big ol 2.4ghz antennas which I think are pretty high gain and my house has some upstream bandwidth to share, so if you're in the neighborhood and need some wifi, [http://map.sudomesh.org/select/san-pabloish/ feel free to come by and get on the network.] | |||
After a dark fall of struggling with various issues | [[File:PeoplesOpen.net-Extender-Node-Bullet-M2-1.jpg|200px]][[File:PeoplesOpen.net-Extender-Node-BulletM2-2.jpg|200px]] | ||
=Downtown Oakland Access Point= | |||
We spent last Sunday installing a 2.4ghz AP pointing NW towards the street at 1212 Broadway in Downtown Oakland in the [https://getclef.com/ Clef] offices. They have a 1gbps connection in their 12th story office and they were willing to share, so we set up a Nanostation M2 pointing towards the street in an attempt to create an open AP. The tricky thing about setting up APs is that while our antenna is quite strong and has high gain, the majority of devices that would connect to it are weak and have low gain (mobile, laptops, etc). We're going to do some monitoring and testing of how usable the signal is on the street, and we may have to do some adjustments and add another antenna. It may be obvious, but one of our members is quite a cable management specialist :) | |||
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PeoplesOpen.net-Clef-Installation-1.jpeg|Showing off work | |||
PeoplesOpen.net-Clef-Installation-2.jpeg|Cable Management | |||
PeoplesOpen.net-Clef-Installation-3.jpeg|Aiming towards the street | |||
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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 | |||
and | |||
Cacti (traffic and some hardware measurements): http://monitor.sudomesh.org/cacti/graph_view.php?action=tree&tree_id=1&leaf_id=45 | |||
[[File:Sudomesh cacti 10.26.15.png|framed|Cacti Graph of PeoplesOpen.net traffic for 10/26/2015]] | |||
[[File:Sudomesh_cacti_graph_sept-oct.2015.png|framed|Cacti Graph of PeoplesOpen.net traffic for Sept-Oct 2015]] | |||
We've 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...= | |||
After a dark fall of struggling with various issues with batman-adv and our tunnels, our coding crew decided to switch to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babel_%28protocol%29 Babel]. While integrating the new protocol into our firmware, we've been actively researching potential sources of bandwidth to feed the network and [[Rooftop_Dish_Antenna_Mount|mounting rooftop nodes]] in strategic locations. Every Sunday, we've been building out the backbone of our network from Kensington to West Oakland - contact us if you've got a spot with great line-of-sight! | |||
Our first major node in Kensington has excellent line-of-sight to both Oakland and Richmond: | Our first major node in Kensington has excellent line-of-sight to both Oakland and Richmond: | ||