Re: Wobbly Wi-Fi strives for stability in Portland (The Oregonian)

> It was MetroFi that came to the rescue.

It worked great at my place on twentieth, too (living under a SkyPilot
helps).
I just wish that MetroFi deployed their mesh-nodes at such a density so
that lots of other Portlanders could have the same happy experience me and
Sam have had! Sadly, due to the questionable certainty of their business
model, it's clear they have deployed at the minimum possible density, and
as a result the network is unusable for some large percentage of
Portlanders
(the unwirepdx-watch report puts a /lower bound/ on this number of around
40%,
of course, this is based on the POC network, and they may have changed
things since
then - although, given monetary constraints, I don't imagine they have much).

Additionally, it would be cool if the network were designed to enable,
rather than
forbid, any novel uses. Filtering all client-to-client traffic, for
instance, provides nothing
to the citizens of Portland in the way of interesting inter-city
communication.

I suppose my point is - yes, of course the metrofi network has value.
However, without
weighing that value against what it might-have-been, we can't learn from
the situation.
For this reason, Mike's endeavors to resurrect a discussion of the initial
unwirepdx goals
is right on track.

--
Caleb Phillips

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