How a group of neighbors created their own Internet service

Re:How a group of neighbors created their own Internet service by dotBen on Sunday November 01, 2015 @04:35PM (#10488425)

Probably because their wireless equipment is the bottleneck and they are utilizing a mesh network topography which means bottlenecks impact other customers. The article stated that their backhaul uplink was on 70Mbps for the whole island.

Seeing as they're using Ubiquiti equipment, I'm not sure why they are not using of their Gbps setups for the backhaul at least.

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Re:How a group of neighbors created their own Internet service by amazon_not on Sunday November 01, 2015 @04:47PM (#10488485)

Probably because they can't afford the backhaul. They pay $900 for 100M.

According to the network diagram in the article they do not appear to run a mesh topology. They run a hub and spoke topology. Each repeater has multiple radios.

Even so, they have serious problems if they can't sustain their 30 Mbps peak usage with their wireless equipment.

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Re:How a group of neighbors created their own Internet service by jlgaddis on Sunday November 01, 2015 @09:43PM (#10489665)

> I'm not sure why they are not using of their Gbps setups for the backhaul at least.

Considering they received a loan to purchase the necessary equipment to start this operation up, I'm guessing it's because they don't have a need for it -- yet, at least.

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