We won’t even relay off one neighbor to another anymore, due to experience with people moving or getting into fights with the neighbor, etc. We’ll only do it between relatives and even then you can get issues. I’m trying to imagine doing it on the scale of this network. People there must either be very laid back and neighborly (it is almost Canada), or they really have no other choices for Internet.
There’s a town Stelle in Illinois that started as a commune, they have a cooperative telephone company, probably Internet too. But that’s a commune. You don’t move to Stelle to have fights with your neighbors. From: Rory Conaway Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 11:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Interesting article about a small town creatingtheir own network This works great until the volunteers start leaving. We had to take one network over where that happened. Rory From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Kuhnke Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2015 9:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Interesting article about a small town creating their own network Their location is on the SE facing edge of Orcas, too close to Mt. Constitution and blocked by trees for ptmp links. Much better ptp link view from there to Anacortes and towers on hilltops in Skagit county. If you were to stand on top of their water tank I bet $5 you will not see the Mt. Constitution tower sites due to the shape of the terrain, despite 90+ meter towers on the summit. Looks like they are doing very short distance ptmp in their 5x5 km square area of orcas, as the photos of shielded ubnt sectors on trees illustrate. On Nov 2, 2015 10:05 AM, "Rick Harnish" <[email protected]> wrote: Interesting, I guess Stuart Baker and Richard Boucher’s Orcas Online doesn’t reach the entire island inhabitants. They have been WISPA members for a number of years and attend WISPAPALOOZA regularly. I talked to Stuart this year actually. Respectfully, Rick Harnish Broadband Consultant & Industry Analyst 260-307-4000 cell Skype: rick.harnish. Twitter: @rharnish From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ryan Ray Sent: Monday, November 02, 2015 12:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [AFMUG] Interesting article about a small town creating their own network http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/11/how-a-group-of-neighbors-created-their-own-internet-service/
