About the network
Mission Flats covers about 19 blocks of San Antonio’s north side, mostly garden apartments and duplexes. The network was built by the tenants’ association after the incumbent provider declined, again, to upgrade the area’s copper lines.
Schematic
Uptime
99.98% uptime over the last 90 days, with no days of degraded service or maintenance.
Governance
- Owned by
- Mission Flats Mesh Cooperative
- Legal home
- Nonprofit corporation with a member-elected board
- Members
- 814 households, one vote each
- Monthly assembly
- Last Wednesday of each month, 6:30 pm, at the parish hall
- Annual assembly
- Every June
- Maintenance fund
- $9 a month per household, suggested. No household is disconnected for not paying.
Stewards
Elected by the members. Listed by first name and initial.
- Damon R.Network steward · since 2025
- Kateryna N.Treasurer · since 2023
- Hassan H.Membership steward · since 2022
- Ariel W.Training steward · since 2024
- Hyun V.Rooftops steward · since 2019
- Duc B.Secretary · since 2026
- Cora D.Network steward · since 2025
Backhaul
Links that carry the network’s traffic to the wider internet.
| Link | Medium | Capacity | Far end | Peak use yesterday |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LT-38-BH1 | Fiber | 10 Gbps | San Antonio internet exchange | 11% |
| LT-38-BH2 | Licensed microwave, 11 GHz | 2 Gbps | Tower site, San Antonio | 15% |
Maintenance log
Firmware 4.6.2 rollout. Staged firmware rollout to every node, one hub’s area at a time. Each node restarted once.
Annual assembly: 88 members attended and elected three stewards.
Hardware refresh: 16 nodes upgraded to Stoop R6 over the year.
Annual assembly: 71 members attended and elected three stewards.
Cable to N-1631 replaced; squirrels again.
Battery modules replaced at 5 hubs ahead of winter.
N-1620 moved to the other side of the roof to clear a new air-conditioning unit.
Heat wave: 3 rooftop nodes throttled; all recovered overnight.
Hardware build night: 19 Stoop nodes assembled from parts.
Maintenance fund audit presented to members and approved.
Expansion: three new nodes in 2022, mostly in grids A3, A5 and C2.
Hardware refresh: 12 nodes upgraded to Stoop R5 over the year.
New hub on the church steeple: N-2588.
Expansion: four new nodes in 2020, mostly in grids A1, C2 and G5.
Firmware 4.0 rolled out to every node.
Network switched on: 21 nodes installed by 49 volunteers over a weekend.
Founding assembly: the Mission Flats Mesh Cooperative adopts its charter and elects five stewards.