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We haven't updated this page in a while but our only expenses have been for materials and services for the mesh project. Mostly we've bought wifi routers for testing the firmware and setting up a test network but also outdoor mounting supplies including outdoor-rated shielded and grounded CAT6, various brackets, telescoping flagpoles, etc. We've also spent some money printing fliers, stickers and other promotional material for the mesh as well as hosting costs for our web servers and [[VPuN]] servers. | |||
We have been logging all purchases and will make them public as soon as we find a moment for more bureaucracy. | |||
= First crowd-sourced purchase = | = First crowd-sourced purchase = | ||
*Date: June 2013. | *Date: June-July 2013. | ||
*Contents of buy: Over 100 | *Contents of buy: Over 100 Ubiquiti routers. Mostly Picostation 2 HPs and Bullet 2 HPs. A bunch of nice omnis. A few Ubiquiti M5 routers. See [https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Inventory Inventory] for precise details. | ||
*Price: $2,257 including shipping. | *Price: $2,257 including shipping. | ||
*Funding sources: [https://www.wepay.com/xtewtey $ | *Funding sources: [https://www.wepay.com/xtewtey $3166 from WePay campaign] and 1.951511 donated bitcoins. | ||
:Promoted on facebook, twitter, gittip, | :Promoted on facebook, [http://twitter.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wepay.com%2Fdonations%2Foakland-community-mesh-network twitter], [https://www.gittip.com/sudomesh/ gittip], chat rooms and Reddit (see below for details). | ||
:Mailing Lists: [mailto:spaghettinight@tentacle.net Spaghettinight], [mailto:cwn-summit@lists.chambana.net CWN (Community Wireless Networks) Summit Planning List], [mailto:battlemesh@ml.ninux.org Battlemesh], [mailto:building-a-distributed-decentralized-internet@googlegroups.com Building A Distributed Decentralized Internet], [mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org Sudoroom], [mailto:noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net Noisebridge], [mailto:discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org Hackerspaces.org], Labitat [ ] | |||
*Seller: User fixsum on ebay. | *Seller: User fixsum on ebay. | ||
:He has offered to help with advice and tech support. Has started at least two WISPs. One in [https://www.facebook.com/rnetwork Kigali, Rwanda]. | :He has offered to help with advice and tech support. Has started at least two WISPs. One in [https://www.facebook.com/rnetwork Kigali, Rwanda]. | ||
*Remaining Funds: $909 + 1.951511 Bitcoins (~$200) = ~$1109 | |||
== Financial supporters == | == Financial supporters == | ||
*Paula Nelson | |||
*Frederick Fisher | |||
*John Osborn | |||
*Thomas Schreiber | |||
*Jonathan Baldwin | |||
*Isaac Wilder | |||
*Tonya Love | |||
*Jesse Wolfe | |||
*Andrew Visser | |||
*Daniel Schulman | |||
*Mamiko Inoue | |||
*David Lester | |||
*Cyrus Farivar | |||
*Marina Kukso | |||
*Thomas Dudley | |||
*Anthony C DiFranco | |||
*Carly Nacmanie | |||
*Timothy M Vollmer | |||
*Lucas S Gonze | |||
*Rand Fitzpatrick | |||
*Alexandra Z. Chua | |||
*Claudia Miller | |||
*Susan Harris | |||
*Praveen Sinha | *Praveen Sinha | ||
*Matthew Senate | *Matthew Senate | ||
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*Micah Daigle | *Micah Daigle | ||
*Jenny Ryan | *Jenny Ryan | ||
* | *Seven anonymous WePay contributors | ||
*#fort (J.C.) | *\#fort (J.C.) | ||
*Reddit user patcon | *Reddit user patcon | ||
*Reddit user cdelargy | *Reddit user cdelargy | ||
* | *Three anonymous bitcoin contributors | ||
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This is a very worthy project to get off the ground and it won't take a lot of money. To give some background, Wifi/internet access is a desperately needed commodity in communities from India to SF/Oak. Corporate wifi hotspots are too expensive and municipal wifi has also largely failed in the Bay Area. There is a huge last mile problem, and mesh networking solves it very nicely. A mesh network is an open-access, free for everyone, peer to peer network that works by placing routers close together in a dense neighborhood. As a bonus, it's also secure from governmental spying. In this case, Jenny and Marc's group is looking to blanket East Oakland (in the hood where LOL is) with coverage. This would provide an open network for a large underserved population and is a great testbed for future deploys. Hoping people will pass around this fundraiser. Feel free to ask me or Jenny Ryan if you have any questions on what mesh is or what sorts of impacts it could have on a neighborhood. | This is a very worthy project to get off the ground and it won't take a lot of money. To give some background, Wifi/internet access is a desperately needed commodity in communities from India to SF/Oak. Corporate wifi hotspots are too expensive and municipal wifi has also largely failed in the Bay Area. There is a huge last mile problem, and mesh networking solves it very nicely. A mesh network is an open-access, free for everyone, peer to peer network that works by placing routers close together in a dense neighborhood. As a bonus, it's also secure from governmental spying. In this case, Jenny and Marc's group is looking to blanket East Oakland (in the hood where LOL is) with coverage. This would provide an open network for a large underserved population and is a great testbed for future deploys. Hoping people will pass around this fundraiser. Feel free to ask me or Jenny Ryan if you have any questions on what mesh is or what sorts of impacts it could have on a neighborhood. | ||
== Text from ebay page == | |||
Hi, thanks for looking at this equipment auction. These are used Ubiquiti wifi routers. There are 77 picostation 2 hp's. There are 26 bullet 2 hp's. There are 4 airgids (only three grids) though. I also have in 36 omnis and 1 unifi indoor. | |||
This equipment has been used but on the shelf of my computer shop that I am selling for a year. There are probably ten units that do not work in the lot, but I do not want to through and test them all so am selling them cheaper because of it. *I can guarantee almost all work as that is why I kept them, just letting you know there will be a few that don't work, or possibly just need to be flashed to work. As well, they haven't been used in a year so before deploying I would consider flashing them with latest-greatest firmware from Ubquiti. | |||
This is a great deal for anyone who is in the WISP business and needs cpe or WAP's. If you know Ubiquiti stuff you know it's high quality for not a lot of money, and in this case even less :) | |||
The shipping will be determined by weight and where you are located. I will send an invoice from UPS so you can see I am only charging exactly what they estimate shipping costs to be. The routers are lightweight, but the grids and omnis add to the weight, so after the auction if you don't want those they can be omitted to keep shipping down. | |||
I've gone through and boxed up most, a few don't still have boxes. Almost all have power cords except for a few. All of them have antenna, POE, and of course router. | |||
This is a great deal to get routers for as cheap as only $25 with the understanding a few of them as you go thru testing will be not working. If you win the auction but are concerned for a fee I will go thru and flash each of them and test them, but for this price I have to sell with the understanding you will do testing and that at least 90 % will work. You can bid with confidence as I am reasonable and want to make sure you get what u expect :) I only have no use for this stuff anymore and will sell it cheap. | |||