The FCC runs an $8 billion federal subsidy program to help bring phone and broadband services to lower income homes and schools called the Universal Service Fund. The program was historically …
I 100% have been looking for a good simple stack. Based on Raspberry pi zeros or similar with some basic commodity Wi-Fi dongles attached to long range directional antennas to set up a high coverage Wi-Fi mesh for our local area. Cheap or 3D printed cases with a small lipo cell, charger circuitry and maybe solar. Hang it up on trees or various places around.
i happen to be prototyping (just drawing and speccing) this with high gain directional 5GHz Wi-Fi radios for my local community. I worked as an engineer in the fixed wireless space for some time, so I think it’s definitely viable to setup a few point-to-point and multi-point radios around and get a small metro area network running. at this point I just need to get my hands on the hardware lol
My buddy has been talking up a setup intended to run on meshtastic via something like the T-deck
The latency is going to suck ass but it will be better than the Nazi filtered cesspool which awaits us on the main web. sigh, it shouldn’t have ever come to this
I 100% have been looking for a good simple stack. Based on Raspberry pi zeros or similar with some basic commodity Wi-Fi dongles attached to long range directional antennas to set up a high coverage Wi-Fi mesh for our local area. Cheap or 3D printed cases with a small lipo cell, charger circuitry and maybe solar. Hang it up on trees or various places around.
i happen to be prototyping (just drawing and speccing) this with high gain directional 5GHz Wi-Fi radios for my local community. I worked as an engineer in the fixed wireless space for some time, so I think it’s definitely viable to setup a few point-to-point and multi-point radios around and get a small metro area network running. at this point I just need to get my hands on the hardware lol
My buddy has been talking up a setup intended to run on meshtastic via something like the T-deck
The latency is going to suck ass but it will be better than the Nazi filtered cesspool which awaits us on the main web. sigh, it shouldn’t have ever come to this