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Totally awesome, thanks. Could you break down costs (ideally in dollars) for getting a network up and running. To clarify, how much would infrastructure cost in
by vonklaus 11y ago
Totally awesome, thanks. Could you break down costs (ideally in dollars) for getting a network up and running. To clarify, how much would infrastructure cost initially for the setup and also to the end user. How much did it cost to connect those 30k nodes, how many people are served and what kind of speed and bandwith are you seeing?
Sorry to lob a ton of ?s at you but this is SUPER INTERESTING.
Thanks.
- jamesblonde 11y agoOrdinary users pay 59 euros (65 dollars) for a wireless access point. Typically they pay somebody 20 euros to install the directed antenna outside the building. For directed wifi connections, you can get up to 20-50 Mb/s or single digit Mb/s. Some links are very long - up to 10 kms. Obviously, over many hops it degrades, but most traffic goes to the Internet gateway right now - which is never too far. There are also users around the network with outside access who offer their machines as Internet proxies. Many of these are used, so a lot of traffic terminates inside Guifi.net at those points as well. The cost was born by people who wanted cheap Internet. 65 bucks for free Internet.
- vonklaus 11y agoWow totally fascinating. Thanks for answering. Would be great to see this take off in NY.