DIY Network Plans to Subvert Time Warner Cable’s NYC

[Zuberi TauParticipant 10606]

In a warehouse basement in Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood late last year, a handful of self-taught network engineers gathered to casually discuss how they might make Time Warner Cable irrelevant in their lives.
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-a-diy-network-plans-to-subvert-time-warner-cables-nyc-internet-monopoly
Toppling—or at least subverting—a telecom monopoly is the dream of many an American, who are fed up with bait-and-switch advertising campaigns, arbitrary data caps, attacks on net neutrality, overzealous political lobbying, lackluster customer service, and passive-aggressive service cancellation experiences that are a common experience of simply being a broadband internet customer these days. The folks at NYC Mesh are actually doing something about it.

[hmskl’dParticipant 6406]

Interesting. I recall as a kid in extreme rural location I only had two tv channels
.. had to manually rotate vhf antenna mast on porch roof to change stations .. in cold weather my fingers stuck to metal 🙂

[chirParticipant]

Mesh networking has been around for a while. As the power of the wifi routers has grown and the price has gone down it is becoming a viable solution for low cost networking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_networking

It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion, it is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning; it is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.

[MattNYCParticipant 2329]

I’ll support anything that’ll kick TWC off their high horse, or any other telecoms monopoly for that matter.

I’d vastly prefer the physical layer to be wired – more reliable, better throughput, etc – but anything’s better than TWC & similar dinosaurs.

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