About the network
Passaic Terrace covers about 31 blocks of Paterson’s northeast side, mostly two- and three-family frame houses. The network was built by a housing cooperative’s board after the only provider in the area was fined for advertising speeds it never delivered.
Schematic
Uptime
99.97% uptime over the last 90 days, with no days of degraded service or maintenance.
Governance
- Owned by
- Passaic Terrace Community Net
- Legal home
- Tenants’ association, incorporated as a nonprofit
- Members
- 1,416 households, one vote each
- Monthly assembly
- Second Thursday of each month, 7:30 pm, at the union hall
- Annual assembly
- Every July
- 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.
- Maurice I.Network steward · since 2016
- Angela C.Treasurer · since 2019
- Grace L.Membership steward · since 2016
- Chidi L.Training steward · since 2020
- Eduardo J.Rooftops steward · since 2018
- Juana D.Secretary · since 2024
Backhaul
Links that carry the network’s traffic to the wider internet.
| Link | Medium | Capacity | Far end | Peak use yesterday |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LT-04-BH1 | Fiber | 10 Gbps | Paterson internet exchange | 27% |
| LT-04-BH2 | Fiber, donated by the library system | 1 Gbps | Public library network | 77% |
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: 79 members attended and elected three stewards.
Radio on N-1793 replaced after water got into the enclosure.
Tree trimming along two backbone paths, with the city’s parks crew.
Hardware refresh: 25 nodes upgraded to Stoop R6 over the year.
Annual assembly: 72 members attended and elected two stewards.
Heat wave: 6 rooftop nodes throttled; all recovered overnight.
New hub on the public housing tower roof, under a housing authority agreement: N-3239.
Installer workshop: 13 residents trained and climbed their first roof.
Ice storm: 2 nodes offline until power was restored.
Expansion: four new nodes in 2024, mostly in grids B4, F2 and F5.
N-1912 moved to the other side of the roof to clear a new air-conditioning unit.
Steward training on monitoring and fault-finding: 19 attended.
Mount on N-0083 re-secured after the host reported a loose mast.
Expansion: four new nodes in 2023, mostly in grids E5, G3 and G4.
Rooftop agreements reviewed; 4 renewed with new building owners.
Hardware refresh: 32 nodes upgraded to Stoop R5 over the year.
Firmware 4.0 rolled out to every node.
Backhaul upgraded from 1 Gbps to 10 Gbps fiber.
Hardware refresh: 19 nodes upgraded to Stoop R4 over the year.
New hub on the public school roof, under a district agreement: N-0853.
Firmware 3.0 rolled out to every node.
New hub on the parish bell tower: N-0226.
Network switched on: 18 nodes across the first few blocks.
Founding assembly: the Passaic Terrace Community Net adopts its charter and elects five stewards.