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Network health and shared know-how for the stewards of sixty-four community-owned mesh networks. No subscription fees, no data caps, and no one selling anyone’s traffic.
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Community networks
210,412
Residents connected
3,624/3,690
Nodes online
99.95%
Average uptime, 90 days
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Network health
Ninety days of history →61 of 64 networks fully operational · as of Nov 2, 2026, 06:00 UTC
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Lake-effect snow
Heavy lake-effect snow overnight. Four rooftop nodes are offline and two links are degraded while dishes are iced over. Stewards will clear them after sunrise.
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Scheduled hub replacement
Planned overnight replacement of a Gantry H3 hub with an H5, midnight to 4:00 am local time. Rooftops served by the hub have been moved to neighboring hubs for the window.
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Grid outage
A grid outage since yesterday evening has left nine rooftop nodes without power. Hubs are running on solar and battery as designed, and the backbone is up.
- LT-01 Bridgeside Newark, NJ
- LT-02 Lister Flats Newark, NJ
- LT-03 Canal Row Newark, NJ
- LT-04 Passaic Terrace Paterson, NJ
- LT-05 Elm Hollow Irvington, NJ
- LT-06 Tidewater Heights Jersey City, NJ
- LT-07 North Clay Trenton, NJ
- LT-08 Ferry Landing Camden, NJ
- LT-09 Sedgley Hollow Philadelphia, PA
- LT-10 Ashgrove Chester, PA
- LT-11 Apollo Square Baltimore, MD
- LT-12 Sheridan Flats Bronx, NY
- LT-13 Market Bend Wilmington, DE
- LT-14 Southgate Bridgeport, CT
- LT-15 Oakbend Hartford, CT
- LT-16 Millrace Providence, RI
- LT-17 Lindenvale Pittsburgh, PA
- LT-18 Grainline Buffalo, NY
- LT-19 Furnace Hill Cleveland, OH
- LT-20 Fordline Detroit, MI
- LT-21 Saginaw Bend Flint, MI
- LT-22 Steelmark Gary, IN
- LT-23 Calumet Row Chicago, IL
- LT-24 Westhaven Chicago, IL
- LT-25 Tannery Row Milwaukee, WI
- LT-26 Gravois Bend St. Louis, MO
- LT-27 Riverbluff Memphis, TN
- LT-28 Levee Ward New Orleans, LA
- LT-29 Pearl Bottom Jackson, MS
- LT-30 Ironwood Birmingham, AL
- LT-31 Las Mareas San Juan, PR
- LT-32 Proctor Hollow Atlanta, GA
- LT-33 Tug Fork Hollow Welch, WV
- LT-34 Coahoma Crossing Clarksdale, MS
- LT-35 San Pablo Yards Oakland, CA
- LT-36 Rancho Coronado Fresno, CA
- LT-37 Vista del Rey Los Angeles, CA
- LT-38 Mission Flats San Antonio, TX
- LT-39 Río Bajo El Paso, TX
- LT-40 Acequia Flats Albuquerque, NM
- LT-41 Santa Cruz Bend Tucson, AZ
- LT-42 Ironside Newark, NJ
- LT-43 Hunts Ridge Bronx, NY
- LT-44 Schuylkill Flats Philadelphia, PA
- LT-45 Eastgate Detroit, MI
- LT-46 Carrollton Row Baltimore, MD
- LT-47 Kingsway Rochester, NY
- LT-48 Salina Flats Syracuse, NY
- LT-49 Blue Bend Kansas City, MO
- LT-50 Riverward Des Moines, IA
- LT-51 Westcroft Cincinnati, OH
- LT-52 Highbanks Louisville, KY
- LT-53 Marquette Flats Toledo, OH
- LT-54 Arbor Row Indianapolis, IN
- LT-55 Chatham Ridge Savannah, GA
- LT-56 Old Mill Commons Lowell, MA
- LT-57 Harborview New Bedford, MA
- LT-58 Port Row Elizabeth, NJ
- LT-59 Wheeler Row Washington, DC
- LT-60 Southbank Charleston, SC
- LT-61 Gilpin Row Richmond, VA
- LT-62 Bayshore Flats Stockton, CA
- LT-63 Ferrywood Norfolk, VA
- LT-64 Ashland Park East Orange, NJ
Yesterday’s traffic
All sixty-four networks together, measured as the total passing through every node. Traffic peaks in the evening, when people are home.
- Peak
- 173.6 Gbps at 9:00 pm ET
- Quietest hour
- 26.2 Gbps at 4:00 am ET
- Busiest network
- Sheridan Flats, 5.1 Gbps at peak
Recent maintenance
The latest entries from every network’s maintenance log.
Gilpin Row · Power cut. The rooftop nodes on the affected blocks went down with the grid. Hubs stayed up on battery.
Westhaven · N-0934 replaced under warranty after its radio stopped associating.
Tannery Row · Planned backhaul work. Done overnight. Members were told a week ahead at the monthly assembly.
Proctor Hollow · Annual assembly: 58 members attended and elected two stewards.
Harborview · Power injector for N-3161 replaced after a surge.
Lindenvale · Upstream outage. The network’s transit provider had an outage of its own. The mesh itself stayed up, and local services kept working.
Ashgrove · Power cut. The rooftop nodes on the affected blocks went down with the grid. Hubs stayed up on battery.
Sedgley Hollow · Upstream outage. The network’s transit provider had an outage of its own. The mesh itself stayed up, and local services kept working.
Next workshops
Monthly, in eight regional circuits, for stewards and installers.
The full calendar →Shared knowledge
Open hardware
Every node design, with its specifications and full revision history.
Playbooks
How networks are surveyed, agreed, installed, governed and kept alive.