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Our ASN is AS395853. Our peering info is here- https://nycmesh.net/peering/ https://nycmesh.net/peering/ We have v4 and v6 space. Our uptime when connecting to
by nycmesh 8y ago
Our ASN is AS395853. Our peering info is here- https://nycmesh.net/peering/ https://nycmesh.net/peering/ We have v4 and v6 space.
Our uptime when connecting to supernode1 is significantly better than Time Warner Cable as many of our members have reported.
We are already established. This is something we have already done! It isn't impossible.
Our IXP is DE-CIX, the worlds biggest IXP. We are currently in one data-center/IXP and talking to a few more colocs.
- bogomipz 8y ago>"Our IXP is DE-CIX, the worlds biggest IXP." Yep, DE-CIX is great and 32 Ave of the Americas is one of the most wired buildings in NYC. Great choice. Kudos on you folks, this is a great initiative. Reading this article made me happy. And I'm glad you are getting some press!
- walrus01 8y agoDigi Desert LLC, which existed in 2010? Looks like that's the AS of some entity that predates the existence of your project and current public relations effort. You announce a whopping total of two v4 /24. Kudos for having enough clue to know that you needed to establish a presence at a major IX, and actually doing it, because it looks like you're adding peers. But your actual network presence is minuscule. How do you intend to compete with the six NYC based companies I can think of off the top of my head that are putting fiber fed, $9,000 to $20,000 5 to 10Gbps 71-86 GHz PTP links on rooftops to build their own backbones, when you're playing around with 1000BaseT to the roof and AF24s? You have high uptime? Do you have any of the following, because some of your much larger competitors sure do: sites with parallel A and B side power systems -48VDC rectifier + battery systems sized for 24 hour runtime at load diesel generators propane generators generator resupply contracts chassis-based routers with hotswap fan, N+1 power supplies, dual redundant routing engines pair of identical core routers singlemode fiber to the roof -48vdc power to the roof ironclad rooftop lease agreements with building owners, drawn up by professional telecom/real estate lawyers that run for 5+ year terms a 24x7x365 NOC staffed by live humans
- nycmesh 8y agohttps://www.peeringdb.com/asn/395853 https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/395853 NYC Mesh What is your problem??
- walrus01 8y agoYou're wasting your own time and those of your "customers" unless you have at least $750,000 to establish a serious presence, in my opinion. Amateur-hour WISP stuff is fine in a rural area. You're pretending to be a highly reliable capable ISP, and will eventually either overextend yourselves, run out of rubes to fund you as a nonprofit, or once you reach a size much bigger than you are now, get stomped on and obliterated by a much larger competitor that overbuilds your entire network with carrier-grade infrastructure and takes all your revenue.
- nycmesh 8y agoWe are already self funded by individual donations. Every question I answer seems to bring up new objections.
- JustSomeNobody 8y agoThis thread has to be one of the most overtly hostile threads I've read on HN in a while. What is your concern here? Why do you seem to feel they shouldn't even be trying? What ISP are you affiliated with?
- nycmesh 8y agoWe bypass traditional ISPs by connecting directly at an internet exchange point (DE-CIX IXP) and peering with other networks. This is basically how the internet is formed, by networks peering with each other. We don't need this ISP layer.
- JustSomeNobody 8y agoI was referring to walrus1. Sorry for the confusion. Y'all keep doing what you're doing. I have big hopes for efforts like yours.
- quiet_obrserver 8y agoSo what's the Wifi NAME in Manhattan?
- nycmesh 8y agoThe public access point SSIDs are usually "-NYC Mesh-" or "nycmesh" followed by location.
- pietroglyph 8y agoHow do you deal with malicious networks broadcasting under the same name? Do you use WPA2, or is data sent naked over the air?
- acct1771 8y agoHow do you deal with someone making a Facebook with your first and last name? Same answer.
- oliv__ 8y agoInb4 everyone renames their networks to nycmesh-something and MITM unknowing crowds
- gcb0 8y agowhy would you trust random people more or less than other random people? That's crazy talk.
- samstave 8y agoAre you using Ubiquity HW? If not, why? They are cheap as hell and awesome. Actually - what you should do, is have a customer pay a fee of $100 to connect to the system - and take that $100 and buy another mesh was with each customer on boarding. https://unifi-mesh.ubnt.com/#products https://unifi-mesh.ubnt.com/#products
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