I see freifunk networks more rarely nowadays. They also are notoriously slow. Usually the mobile phone network is faster, even in Germany.
meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I hope they are aware of freifunk.net and don’t start from scratch completely. They’ve been doing that kinda stuff for decades and have developed a modified OpenWRT version and maintain lists of compatible routers
bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Yeeah it kind of fizzled out, that’s true. In larger cities it used to be useful sometimes because of abysmal cell coverage and shady public WiFi. That has improved a lot since then, so yeah nowadays it can’t hold a candle to 4G/5G mobile data.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
NYC Mesh has been around for more than a decade. I assume they talked to other similar projects when building it.
meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
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.