About the network
Coahoma Crossing serves farm families and a small town main street in the Delta. The backbone runs from a hub on the grain elevator, the tallest structure for miles, out to relays on silos and church towers.
Schematic
Uptime
99.93% uptime over the last 90 days, with 1 day of degraded service or maintenance.
Governance
- Owned by
- Coahoma Crossing Mesh Cooperative
- Legal home
- Cooperative corporation, owned by member households
- Members
- 175 households, one vote each
- Monthly assembly
- Third Saturday of each month, 10:00 am, at the senior center
- Annual assembly
- Every April
- Maintenance fund
- $10 a month per household, suggested. No household is disconnected for not paying.
Stewards
Elected by the members. Listed by first name and initial.
- Sofia F.Network steward · since 2025
- Wanda C.Treasurer · since 2018
- Ahmed D.Membership steward · since 2019
- Brandon M.Training steward · since 2019
Backhaul
Links that carry the network’s traffic to the wider internet.
| Link | Medium | Capacity | Far end | Peak use yesterday |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LT-34-BH1 | Licensed microwave, 6 GHz | 2 Gbps | Tower site, Clarksdale | 12% |
| LT-34-BH2 | Fiber | 1 Gbps | County schools network | 7% |
Maintenance log
Storm damage. High winds knocked several dishes out of alignment. Stewards realigned them once it was safe to go up.
Firmware 4.6.2 rollout. Staged firmware rollout to every node, one hub’s area at a time. Each node restarted once.
New hub on the ridge-top mast on leased land: N-3458.
Annual assembly: 12 members attended and elected four stewards.
Mount on N-1427 re-secured after the host reported a loose mast.
Spare parts inventory counted and restocked.
N-2323 moved to the other side of the roof to clear a new air-conditioning unit.
Installer workshop: 8 residents trained and climbed their first roof.
Hardware refresh: 10 nodes upgraded to Stoop R6 over the year.
Annual assembly: 13 members attended and elected four stewards.
Power injector for N-1424 replaced after a surge.
Expansion: three new nodes in 2024, mostly in grids E3, E4 and G3.
Radio on N-1785 replaced after water got into the enclosure.
Storm damage: 8 dishes realigned and one mast replaced.
Climbing safety refresher: 10 installers recertified.
Heavy rain: water ingress found and fixed in 4 enclosures.
New hub on the grain elevator: N-2658.
Firmware 4.0 rolled out to every node.
New hub on the water tower, under a county agreement: N-1485.
Network switched on: 11 nodes installed by 120 volunteers over a weekend.
Founding assembly: the Coahoma Crossing Mesh Cooperative adopts its charter and elects four stewards.