Building A More Human Internet in NYC | Still Connecting
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- One day, a bus severed the cable that provided internet to Daniel Heredia's neighborhood. The large ISP said it would take two weeks to reconnect - he knew there had to be a better way - a more personable, community-centric, human internet.
Fast forward to today, as Motherboard joins NYC Mesh, a group building their own decentralized, wireless mesh networks across NYC, and volunteer Daniel Heredia to see how they spread the mesh across New York City and plan provide affordable and universal internet to all New Yorkers.
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I've set up two NYC mesh installations in separate buildings that I lived and both nodes had great internet speeds. I recommend everyone in NYC set one up where they live.
Thanks, what's "great" in Mbps?
@@spiralfractr It ranges from 60 mbps to 1 Gbps for wifi and upto 20 Gbps for fiber. Also like any other wifi signal, it heavily depends on the area. If you live in Manhattan, then speeds will obviously be good, but in places like Harlem or Brooklyn, it can be slightly less outside of the hotspots. .
what about latency ?
@@Calypso993 It's wireless. It's not gonna be cabled-level latency from client to first hop, I'd expect something similar to the numbers Starlink's touting. That being said, this is clearly meant as accessible internet for the under-served first and foremost, so that people can actually do a lot of important things that are increasingly becoming impossible to do without internet (like even being able to submit an application to a job). I seriously doubt an extra 10ms is gonna mess with your AWP peeks sans placebo/nocebo effect unless you're at the very least ranked LEM, if that's why you're asking.
@@spiralfractr I mean, I would go as far to say that most residences in America have something below 100mbps.
I really like to see the updates from these kind of projects, keep them coming.
It's dumb, big corporations are better .
@@houseplant1016 more options and compertion is better.
@@houseplant1016 that's a funny joke
I saw a project like this in Detroit and heard that one was being built in NYC and I'm very happy that it is a reality
Can’t believe this guys are saying WiFi is a human right when there’s people without food or a home. You won’t die without WiFi, but food in the other hand. That’s a killer.
@@LeeeroyJenkins well... You won't also die due the lack of privacy or freedom of expression. But those are also human rights.. eh!
@@LeeeroyJenkins You need the internet to find jobs. it's not the 90s anymore gramps.
We've been going for over 7 years!
@@NYCMesh I've really been thinking of switching over :D
Support you guys either way
Internet should be classified as a utility
It was then it was rolled back by trump
Food should be classified as a utility too. That way inept bureaucratic machines and oligopolies can dominate there as well.
This is a must in the 21st century.
@@pseudonym3396 UN Did try and vote for food being a human right. Guess the countries that were against :)
@@nvysel24 you act like trump does everything. You mean people in his administration trump just golfed and ranted on teittwe
its interesting to see a wisp (wireless internet service provider) growing in a city like new York with well established existing infrastructure. cool none the less.
Me: "So it double the capacity?
My ISP: "Yeah, I'm not even exaggerating"
And the more people add their node to the mesh, the stronger it gets! Decentralization baby!
I LOVE THIS PROJECT
^this
This is awesome, I would love to set up a mesh network in Louisa, VA. Most of the town does not have internet... And we are two hours from DC.
@corey Babcock my experience with lte has been shoddy at best, I had a lot of lag spikes during gaming, and short cut outs during video calls, though I don't know what its like at other locations
Are you friggin' kiddin' me ? Neighborhood networks appeared like mushrooms after the rain in Romania's 90's and 00's .. They became obsolete when the big corps bought them all and preserved the same prices . I'm glad it becomes a thing now , but abroad this time .
That's not how we do things in the US. If big corps want mesh networks gone, they'll just send over their lobbyists to regulate them out of existence!
You think this thing will see the light of day in any US City
@@Eye-it-azz there already are other cities (like detroit) ... and a fair amount of private rural mini meshes exist out there
This is so admirable, Im so glad great people exist.
I love this!!! I only hope that he's being preemptive in countering the big tech providers(Verizon and Comcast) who aren't strangers to lobbying and taking independent Internet movements through the courts to suck them dry. They only like each other as competition.
Make this a worldwide organization (volunteered), helping other groups (in other parts of world) facing same issues, ramp up such meshes easily....
loved the docs on website though.
Such an underrated and awesome thing. Thank you for making the world that much brighter.
We got a place in Blissville between sunnyside and greenpoint with a large rooftop mast we installed. Would love to see if can offer a node. So wonderful seeing growth of #nycmesh ... you people are making a real difference. Thank you.
Bravo NYCMesh! Love to support your project and help spread the word!
Thank you motherboard for picking this up.
Excellent project. Love this.
Really curious about Backhaul speeds between a Root AP and Mesh AP (1 Hop setup).
They use 60GHz links for the backhaul, you can see the Ubiquity equipment in the video, it's quite cheap actually.
@@thomascrabtree correct
@@thomascrabtree how much dbm
Never heard of this before! Looking forward to the follow-ups!
Dealing with amazing people working in this industry on a daily basis, I can say that I'm happy this is reaching mainstream media finally
Hoping that connectivity as a human right is not something far from our reach
I really love watching content like this, I am also small internet provider in our place.
good on you we need to take care of each other because no one else will even if we pay them to do it.
In Norway internet is a fundamental human right and thus subsides by the govt to ensure everyone has it.
Same here in the UK
Wow...am amazed with what you guys are doing?
That is awesome! Loving it.
I’d really like to share my home internet with my neighbours as I have more bandwidth than I need most of the time. I’m worried about someone downloading illegal content and it being traced to me. It’s a shame, I live in a very high density area. Id happily pay for it for the common good.
If you do set up guest networks or VLANs to separate your main network from the shared one.
Keep records and connection logs, not saying log traffic or DNS requests but that should be enough if anything did happen you can prove you're not the sole user of the connection.
Wow, I just checked their site: Free with a suggested donation. That is, free for both installation (recommended donation of $290) and monthly service fee (no specific donation recommended).
Heck dudes, if I was in NYC, you could have my same Comcast fees to help the organization expand faster, because screw the corporate a-holes from Comcast (oh, sorry, _XFINITY_), Time Warner, Charter, etc that have tried to maintain their localized monopolies.
Edit: added "localized" before "monopolies".
How do I start this in a different location than NYC? This is cool, I’m very interested in doing this
Amazing work
Internet is the fundamental rights of human being like water, electricity, gas. Kudos to the NYC mesh team to take completely different route and refraining from corporate greed.
Great one🔥🔥
Awesome, very impressive!
Gr8 work, keep it up👍👍
I feel like this would be an amazing concept to do here in the city
I love their Place,seems like if your Internet has been lost there's a troubleshooter that you can Call anytime
End screen with all the languages is nice
This is amazing 👍🏾
Hope one day I can setup something like this in my own country cuz ISP’s have a huge monopoly
Indonesia?
@@enriquemuhammad not indonesia if you are on 'great location' which is possible to have 3+ ISP's around the corner
Great enterprise! Wish it would spread all over the globe
I like how some stuff (2 weeks with no internet) that happens in the US is outright illegal in developing countries.
Name one law in one country that makes turning the internet off illegal
@@IvanAkinfiev I think he means as in it's illegal for ISPs to not repair blackouts after a certain amount of time because of consumer protection laws (failure to provide service one pays for)
My ISP, charges a 5% premium over other ISPs but guarantees a two hour resolution of any downtime, cables, routers, it's all covered.
@@LouisSubearth precisely it.
I am really impressed with your hard work bro... I am from the Gambia 🇬🇲 (West Africa)... We have the #worst and most #expensive internet in Africa... I wish to have you and your team the #Gambia 🇬🇲
I want to host my own internet for myself and neighbors since we have nothing great for internet here. The problem i am having is the cost for fiber buildout. We have 2 good fiber companies I'd like to use but the build out they claim will cost over $100k to bring fiber 1 mile.
One easier method is take a spot closer to their drop and then wireless your haul to your dc
Wow I love in Washington Heights but I don't have internet only on my phone plan I'm gonna look into this mesh thing I'm gonna need it for School when I start hopefully it's available up here. This is so awesome 😎
Please give us more of still connecting
I ❤️NYC MESH!!!
Amazing stuff 🙂 hope you reach the whole of the US.. or better all over the world 🌎
Great job
Wow amazing
Very inspiring
I don't know why I feel like you could be part of a comic book. You are so cool!
Great idea for the people
I hope to see more orgs like this come up all of the world. I hope my city could have an organization like this then I can join.
Dude, this is so cool #MeshForLife
Please update us on this project in the future.
I was wondering this whole time :
“Are these landlords just allowing roof access for free, or does NYC Mesh have a profit sharing agreement?”
I hope to see them easily be able to give internet to each apartment in a building. Would be great to stick it to cable and use Ethernet over coax / MoCA.
The internet is literally cables and servers commutating with eachother. The world wide Web is the websites and web pages we see on our screens (every time we visit them).
good stuff
Belgrade, Serbia had this 15 years ago
Your using some Unifi equipment very cool.
good job
This is amazing. Truly good people out there willing to help. Thank you for what you do. Could change someone’s life. This could be the next Einstein or Steve Wozniak or satoshi that has access to Internet because of you
Essential service i like that
real heroes
I would love to help, im obsessed with network infrastructure but i dont have the experience. This would honestly be the next best thing and i would be so happy to be a part of it
We train people! Many of us had no network experience before starting
I wish I can do this. This is really cool 😎 👌 👏 👍 😄 😀
Reminds me of what they're doing in Cuba for internet
This is cool
Wow ❤️
A few things... 1. More people need to hear about this. 2. There needs to be an easy way to donate. 3. There needs to be a training program for high school kids and kits for young people to get this going. Those three things would turn this into an unstoppable movement in cities nationwide. The problem would then be to keep it pure and out of the hands of the big ISPs because the only reason this still exists is because it's tiny and the ISPs don't care yet.
i would like to understand more of how a mesh network works and contribute in any way i can, is there a discord for nyc mesh?
Amezing content...
*Amazing
I love those ameizing contents too, bro.
*Ameshing
@@LimitedWard 😂😂😂 you got the spirit!
This guys gets it
this is great. wish we had this in Seattle. I think a LOT of people would sign up. and lots of tech-savvy people around. ... cause really, screw comcast and the rest. biggest red flag is that the industry sells their plans by a *maximum* speed instead of a *minimum* speed.
Yes! Same in the Bay Area. This is super needed
This is beautiful, but I don't understand how regular wifi isn't saturated if you're using it for backbone links? I saw the mmwave antennas but not every installation had it.
Good people.
I wish I could help out. I’m not even from New York but I do live on the east coast. I’d be great to do work that helps others.
Table Top, the local ISP in Seligman, unwittingly got themselves a monopoly after Verizon decided they didn't want to go through the trouble of supplying a rural area. Thankfully we have Starlink, but your efforts in New York are still most commendable, and very necessary to combat the greed of ISPs.
I think it's funny when they say these guys are volunteers someone's making money here! No-doubt-about-it
Sorry, but we are a non-profit with no employees. This will change soon as we are taking on some huge projects that will require employees.
@@NYCMesh that's great more power to you guys
Over here aside of fiber optic which is the common thing, cable, dsl we have WiMax that looks like those antenas.
UniFi is the backbone for so many of there services
would love to donate to this project
I wish there was something like this for rural areas. Verizon was the only provider in my area for at least a decade, and they continued to raise prices and never repair broken lines. It was copper wire, so on a good day I could get 5 mbps with outages every hour or so.
It can be start one of your own.
Hey, I'm from the other side of the world and I love this work. I have one question! When the weather is really bad ( I know in NYC tends to snow a lot and rain aswell) how does that affect the signal? What equipment is being used to mitigate those environmental effects?
Our sector antennas are 5 GHz which is fine in the rain. Our gigabit backhaul is 60 and 24 GHz which is affected by rain. We set up lots of redundant connections so if the 60 GHz goes down there will be a 5Ghz backup connection to take over. Also we try to keep distances short on the 60 GHz.
Dope
In Indonesia, if you are not in the mainland of Java, there is only one state-owned ISP which provides 20 Mbps for eqv. USD27 and 400GB FUP with many intermittent problems every single month. They ban this kind of thing where you share your internet with people.
Tell these guys to put on harnesses!
If it is in Indonesia, it's called as RT-RW Net, or Neighborhood-Net
Every time I see video like this I think I'm living in some sort of safe bubble. Gosh, in Europe we dont have such problems, no internet is like a third world for us, even smallest villages here have fast and cheap internet. Its really scary how things look in USA :(
it's not nearly as bad as it seems. usa has some isp problems, but in places like nyc most people have the ability to get wifi. the place i'm staying at has nyc mesh and 100+ private wifi routers
I mean great but tmobile 5g already has 300 mbp speeds for home where I live in queens.
I feel traditional providers failing to keep up is the same reason why Africa has some of the best connectivity and that Is that og providers have tonnes of equipment that cost a lot and scrapping it all and starting again isn't a feasible option. This NYC mesh is starting with the newer technology and can set it up in a way that the of providers currently can't.
Can this come to like other parts of the country too????!
Can this please come to texas
It can be done anywhere you have access to a fast backhaul connection. They're using unlicensed spectrum with commodity Ubiquiti point-to-point equipment.
W have set up many in NC.
Shouldn't admit which is your Node. Also, should look at Particle Schematics from the Xenons they made.
Let's get something clear here, in Houston in the suburbs (we're internet is more expensive to deploy) 1GB fiber is $40 a month, in NYC you keep wanting to tax corporations you don't understand they just roll all those taxes right to the consumer and that's the only reason internet is expensive.
Is there a tutorials that we can follow. In our county we have a slow internet connection and signals.
This is a start to a solution to a much greater problem. One day, hopefully, the "mesh" will be so widespread that it's connection to the contemporary "internet" can be severed, and the "mesh" will BE the NEW internet.
Yes!!
galaxy book flex at 3:30 best laptop in the game!
I think it's an HP Spectre x360. Especially since it seems that the video was supported by HP (9:18).
@@elbaekk yeah. It quite disturbs me with this hidden ads.
seeing right through this HP pr stunt
What sort of speeds are the endusers looking at with this service?
Gonna depend on a lot of variables, like is your building getting a full fiber, you grabbing from a neighbor, etc... but def much faster than crappy dsl where verizon doesnt offer fios and no cable offered. Like 50+Mbps
I would think under 100 mps
I’d be interested in integrating a network similar to Helium that provides access points with directional long range wifi antennas. As a first generation immigrant child (US citizen), I did not have privilege of having home internet via paying for ISP - we were very poor and often barely had enough to pay bills or eat. I learned about long range wifi and used an antenna I built myself to get wifi from a public library or McDonald’s that were both 5-10km away. I have drawn up a few schematics, I’m a physician through schooling but a network architect by trade - I would love to share my vision of a faster more efficient/secure/encrypted network for the general public, especially those who cannot afford ISP broadband.
I d also be interested in setting something like this up.
Me as well.