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Not really in a situation where I can watch a video without potentially annoying someone right now, but

A municipal mesh network isn’t a bad idea, but I worry about what security measures are in place, effectively securing a wireless network with hundreds of independent stations feels like it wouldn’t be trivial.

And surely this will need a WAN gateway to the internet somewhere, so it’ll only be as reliable as the route to that uplink.

This might have all been addressed in the video though, I’ll see if I can find an article about it.

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scripthook@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
They do encrypt using WPA2 and firewall separation the network also supports VPN

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Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

A municipal mesh network isn’t a bad idea, but I worry about what security measures are in place, effectively securing a wireless network with hundreds of independent stations feels like it wouldn’t be trivial.

Probably the same as a WISP, since that’s what this essentially is. I don’t know about specifics of security, since they didn’t mention it.

And surely this will need a WAN gateway to the internet somewhere, so it’ll only be as reliable as the route to that uplink.

They have volunteer nodes that connect to each other and multiple super nodes that connect to WAN via peering and having transit donated by Packet.net and Webair. I don’t know what any of that means, but that’s what they said about how they are able to provide service.

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