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  • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I’m shocked this is going through. I gotta imagine at least Tennessee will block it. They’re super pro-big isp.

  • thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Way way long ago I remember when I lived in Portland that they tried this, it was a pilot program. Idk if it’s true or propaganda but it didn’t work out because it was slow down because of how much porn people where downloading, so they didn’t expand it and just stoped doing it.

  • BigTrout75@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Reminds me of the time I shared my Internet with my friend who was in another apartment. We just created a Wi-Fi bridge with dd-wrt. That was 15 years ago.

  • Fair Fairy@thelemmy.club
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    2 months ago

    So no Internet when it rains?
    Sorry but this idea strikes me as it’s just not gonna work.

    Like I don’t even get it - NYC probably has many competing internet providers.

  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    This seems like a bad idea.

    What sort of protections are in place against nefarious actors that gain access to this network? Do they do anything to isolate each connected device from each other so that two devices on the network cannot connect to each other, such as making use of subnets? Are users connections throttled, and if so, to what degree? Are certain websites blocked to prevent potential malicious actors from intercepting sensitive data more easily, such as bank sites?

    I mean, the idea is a well intentioned one, but I can easily see this going very wrong very quickly.

    • frezik@midwest.social
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      2 months ago

      If your bank credentials can be intercepted that way, then the bank had poor security. They’re not responsible for that anymore than any other ISP.

    • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      As a service provider, you’re not legally responsible for what others do on your network.

      • arrakark@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Yes… But technically you do have other legal obligations like reporting and certain data collection, like who owns what IP for example.

      • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I don’t know, I find people do all sorts of stuff with their networks all the time that has me scratching my head trying to figure out why they set it that way when I am eventually called to fix it.

        • owsei@programming.dev
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          2 months ago

          that makes sense

          but in this case, the bank, or whatever good site, would probably not even allow non-TLS connections

          and if the mesh necessitates TLS only on an exit node*. Then yeah, that’s a stupid and flawed network. And it also wouldn’t be transparent (in the sense of using just like a normal ISP)

          *I’m not sure how it connects to the rest of the internet, but assuming there are exit nodes that connect to other networks

  • moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I wish I had that near me, but unfortunately I don’t live in New York (United States), I live in New York (United States).

    ARGH PLACENAMES

  • FearMeAndDecay@literature.cafeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Okay I read the explanation on their faq page but I’m still kinda confused on how this works. Don’t they need like satellites for internet access? What exactly is this in simple terms? Like it seems good, I just want to understand it

    • woodenleg_duck@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      You don’t need satellites, just some connection on a datacenter (like but internet in bulk, maybe they have some special deal and is free or very cheap). But this is the boring part, the fun part is that you can connect to the hubs (light blue dots in the map) with a router with an antenna or you can connect to another router (red dots). The network is like a living being that keeps expanding. Then to go out to the Internet, the packets are jumping as they can between neighbors (they have a way to know the path) until they reach the datacenter. It looks like you only have to pay for the initial equipment (plus some donations to maintain the network), but it will probably end up costing you some of your time maintaining the network, learning and helping other people in the network.

  • nroth@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    That is for sharing! I’m up to see what I can do on the UWS (signed up) but maybe that’s too far

  • ABetterTomorrow@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Getting ready to drop some raspberry pi OpenWRT WiFi 7 with WiFi HaLow around westchester to downtown. Let me know needed areas!

    • nucleative@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I was just thinking about ricochet while perusing the thread. Ricochet was new when I was starting in IT and I can still remember connecting a ricochet modem to a company laptop and then pulling up our novell netware file share over our vpn. It was jaw dropping to see it at the time. Amazing how far we’ve come since then.

  • Obinice@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Okay, going off the title to start with you’re building a WiFi network, that’s very cool (I’m guessing it’s a mesh network), but will you connect it to the Internet too?

    That’d be more of a headline if so, then just building a WiFi network.

      • Lycist@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Many many good reasons. Intranets are a thing pretty much everwhere.

        Mostly for documents and resource sharing. Perhaps its a way to connect locally to a library and its resources without the vileness and enshittification of web2.0 getting in the way?

    • TheHalifaxJones@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      My friend has been using NYCmesh for a couple years now. He has nothing. It positive things to say about it.