{"id":442,"date":"2022-02-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/?p=442"},"modified":"2022-02-01T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T09:00:00","slug":"nyc-mesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/?p=442","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mesh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Internet feels like a human right now: providing access to information, communication, and life admin tools (at the least). There\u2019s around 1m people in NYC that don\u2019t have access to internet, due to cost barriers driven to the oligopolistic market of providers. They won\u2019t invest in areas where it\u2019s deemed a low return on investment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/nycmesh.net\" target=\"_blank\">NYC Mesh<\/a> is a community run organisation, run by volunteers, helping people get access to high speed internet. Super nodes are fibre-connected and act as gateways, repeaters then beam internet to neighbourhood nodes, which relay it to a user\u2019s individual router. It becomes a web of interconnected routers and repeaters keeping internet access operational. Users cover the cost of installation if they have the means, it still goes ahead if they don\u2019t. Everything else is run on donations. It\u2019s free for those who can\u2019t financially support the cause.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Security-wise, the mesh router is firewalled from a user\u2019s local network meaning it\u2019s not possible to reach beyond the mesh router to a user\u2019s local access network (LAN). The mesh internet connection and traffic between nodes is encrypted using WPA2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet feels like a human right now: providing access to information, communication, and life admin tools (at the least). There\u2019s around 1m people in NYC that don\u2019t have access to internet, due to cost barriers driven to the oligopolistic market of providers. They won\u2019t invest in areas where it\u2019s deemed a low return on investment. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}