TheHalifaxJones@lemm.ee to You Should Know@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoYSK some cities in the US are starting to build an affordable community built wifi network that goes around big telecom companieswww.nycmesh.netexternal-linkmessage-square85linkfedilinkarrow-up1838arrow-down114
arrow-up1824arrow-down1external-linkYSK some cities in the US are starting to build an affordable community built wifi network that goes around big telecom companieswww.nycmesh.netTheHalifaxJones@lemm.ee to You Should Know@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square85linkfedilink
minus-squareunexposedhazardlinkfedilinkarrow-up23·9 months agoNYC Mesh has been around for more than a decade. I assume they talked to other similar projects when building it.
minus-squarememe_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·9 months agoAh nice! :D Yeeeah just thought it’d be a shame to not utilize existing work that has been done on OpenWRT. But then again, it’s highly unlikely that actors from similar groups haven’t met at hacker conferences, GitHub repos, etc.
NYC Mesh has been around for more than a decade. I assume they talked to other similar projects when building it.
Ah nice! :D Yeeeah just thought it’d be a shame to not utilize existing work that has been done on OpenWRT. But then again, it’s highly unlikely that actors from similar groups haven’t met at hacker conferences, GitHub repos, etc.