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You don’t have to share your mesh connection with all 30 units and the equipment you install wouldn’t be able to support 30 units. Mesh also isn’t really availa
by yepthatsreality 5y ago
You don’t have to share your mesh connection with all 30 units and the equipment you install wouldn’t be able to support 30 units. Mesh also isn’t really available for Mega ultra fast connection speeds but more of a secondary connection.
Having said that, the fun of mesh is having those conversations and getting others to also purchase equipment and install. Also as your neighbors and surrounding buildings add their own installs, the boxes will also wirelessly mesh together which will increase bandwidth and possibly speed.
So maybe you could ask 2 of your neighbors to pitch in, which would get you the connection but also influence others to join in on your neighborhood network.
Right now I bought a Ubiquiti Edge router and balance my connection so that NYC Mesh is a failover. Initially was receiving 40Mpbs download but checked again recently and now am sometimes seeing speeds of 100Mbps because the nodes in my neighborhood grew.
- afavour 5y ago> You don’t have to share your mesh connection with all 30 units and the equipment you install wouldn’t be able to support 30 units. Right, and that’s the key problem with building management approval. They’re already disinterested and they’re even less interested in installing something that only benefits one apartment or maybe a couple. There’s already a specific exclusion against the likes of DirectTV satellites that only serve one apartment on the roof. So the best chance of getting approved is to go down the fiber route, but that’s a so much larger and complex solution that there’s less chance it’ll ever happen. Feels a little catch 22-ish: the small solution is too small to get approved, the large solution is too large to get approved. None of this is Mesh’s fault, it’s just that plodding real estate interests in the city always default to doing nothing if they can. (worth noting though that a number of folks in NYC live in co-op buildings where the apartment owners are the building management, I imagine the fiber option could make inroads there much more easily)
- yepthatsreality 5y agoI don’t think the small solution is too small to get approved. You just need to make the right arguments. “Hey let’s install this so every apartment has free/low cost internet connection.” Isn’t the right argument. “Let’s install this so we can be apart of a growing network, then if other residents are interested they can join with their own time investment. This way people have options and a working relationship with management. If this ends up as too much work then the equipment is easily removed.” Make the argument to opt out and I think you will find that once it’s in place no one will want to put in the time to opt out because the opt-in is all benefit. I understand what you’re saying and the fiber option could be a later enhancement. I know NYC building management is sometimes difficult but my installs were fun and painless that I’m hard pressed to believe it wasn’t worth it.
- seanp2k2 5y agoThere’s also the problem of landlords / apartment managers signing exclusivity deals with Comcast https://www.theregister.com/2017/08/23/big_cable_apartment_exclusive_deals/ https://www.theregister.com/2017/08/23/big_cable_apartment_e...
- porknubbins 5y agoYeah these are landlords who fought cable installation in the 80s, still fight fiber Verizon installation today and have zero reason to let a tenant install something on the roof so I gave up on mesh in NYC.