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I don't know anything about the SF program, but I lived in Mountain View at the time (still do). They put one of the mesh nodes on a street lamp about 200 feet
by kijiki 6y ago
I don't know anything about the SF program, but I lived in Mountain View at the time (still do). They put one of the mesh nodes on a street lamp about 200 feet away from my house. I played around with using it as a backup for when the DSL was down, but I gave up because it required you to log in with a google account.
- nostrademons 6y agoI don't recall it requiring a Google account, at least when I tried it. Perhaps they changed it over time. Back then you could just sign up for GMail accounts without giving over any useful personal information though.
- kijiki 6y agoI used a burner gmail account to try it out. It was slow enough the idea of creating new burner gmail accounts every time I wanted to use it was uninteresting. IIRC, it was below 128kbit/s for me, though there was at least one mesh hop away from a node that had a directional antenna pointed towards 444 Castro. Perhaps it was faster if your local node happened to have a direct uplink to either 444 or the 'plex.