About the network
Hunts Ridge covers about 44 blocks of the Bronx’s north side, mostly public housing towers and the walk-ups around them. The network was built by a block club after a school district survey found students doing homework in fast-food parking lots for the signal.
Schematic
Uptime
99.92% uptime over the last 90 days, with 1 day of degraded service or maintenance.
Governance
- Owned by
- Hunts Ridge Neighborhood Network
- Legal home
- Tenants’ association, incorporated as a nonprofit
- Members
- 1,435 households, one vote each
- Monthly assembly
- First Tuesday of each month, 7:00 pm, at the branch library’s community room
- Annual assembly
- Every December
- Maintenance fund
- $8 a month per household, suggested. No household is disconnected for not paying.
Stewards
Elected by the members. Listed by first name and initial.
- Alicia H.Network steward · since 2020
- Joaquín M.Treasurer · since 2021
- Stanley S.Membership steward · since 2021
- Sofia L.Training steward · since 2022
Backhaul
Links that carry the network’s traffic to the wider internet.
| Link | Medium | Capacity | Far end | Peak use yesterday |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LT-43-BH1 | Fiber | 10 Gbps | Bronx internet exchange | 22% |
| LT-43-BH2 | Licensed microwave, 11 GHz | 2 Gbps | Sheridan Flats | 32% |
| LT-43-BH3 | Fiber, donated by the library system | 1 Gbps | Public library network | 32% |
Maintenance log
Firmware 4.6.2 rollout. Staged firmware rollout to every node, one hub’s area at a time. Each node restarted once.
Upstream outage. The network’s transit provider had an outage of its own. The mesh itself stayed up, and local services kept working.
N-1920 replaced under warranty after its radio stopped associating.
N-1931 replaced under warranty after its radio stopped associating.
Hardware refresh: 29 nodes upgraded to Stoop R6 over the year.
Annual assembly: 141 members attended and elected four stewards.
Battery modules replaced at 5 hubs ahead of winter.
N-1932 replaced under warranty after its radio stopped associating.
Climbing safety refresher: 20 installers recertified.
Installer workshop: 22 residents trained and climbed their first roof.
Expansion: three new nodes in 2025, mostly in grids B4, D4 and G2.
Expansion: five new nodes in 2024, mostly in grids C1, E2 and E4.
New hub on the apartment tower roof, twelve storeys: N-2944.
N-2595 replaced under warranty after its radio stopped associating.
Dish on N-1922 re-aimed after a neighbor’s new extension blocked the path.
Heavy rain: water ingress found and fixed in 5 enclosures.
Hardware refresh: 10 nodes upgraded to Stoop R5 over the year.
New hub on the church steeple: N-2312.
Expansion: five new nodes in 2020, mostly in grids B3, B4 and C3.
Network switched on: 33 nodes installed by 154 volunteers over a weekend.
Founding assembly: the Hunts Ridge Neighborhood Network adopts its charter and elects four stewards.