About the network
Rancho Coronado covers about 20 blocks of Fresno’s west side, mostly stucco bungalows and courtyard apartments. The network was built by a group of retired telephone line workers after a school district survey found students doing homework in fast-food parking lots for the signal.
Schematic
Uptime
99.97% uptime over the last 90 days, with 1 day of degraded service or maintenance.
Governance
- Owned by
- Rancho Coronado Community Net
- Legal home
- Cooperative corporation, owned by member households
- Members
- 786 households, one vote each
- Monthly assembly
- Second Monday of each month, 7:00 pm, at the senior center
- Annual assembly
- Every January
- 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.
- Danielle W.Network steward · since 2026
- Keisha M.Treasurer · since 2021
- Patrice M.Membership steward · since 2020
- Camila J.Training steward · since 2024
- Alberto D.Rooftops steward · since 2022
Backhaul
Links that carry the network’s traffic to the wider internet.
| Link | Medium | Capacity | Far end | Peak use yesterday |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LT-36-BH1 | Fiber | 10 Gbps | Fresno internet exchange | 16% |
Maintenance log
Planned backhaul work. Done overnight. Members were told a week ahead at the monthly assembly.
Firmware 4.6.2 rollout. Staged firmware rollout to every node, one hub’s area at a time. Each node restarted once.
Heavy rain: water ingress found and fixed in 5 enclosures.
Annual assembly: 52 members attended and elected three stewards.
N-1497 moved to the other side of the roof to clear a new air-conditioning unit.
Hardware refresh: 19 nodes upgraded to Stoop R6 over the year.
Annual assembly: 62 members attended and elected two stewards.
Radio on N-1649 replaced after water got into the enclosure.
Steward training on monitoring and fault-finding: 11 attended.
Storm damage: 7 dishes realigned and one mast replaced.
Tree trimming along two backbone paths, with the city’s parks crew.
Battery modules replaced at 3 hubs ahead of winter.
Expansion: four new nodes in 2023, mostly in grids B2, D4 and G2.
N-1508 moved to the other side of the roof to clear a new air-conditioning unit.
Hardware refresh: 12 nodes upgraded to Stoop R5 over the year.
Firmware 4.0 rolled out to every node.
New hub on the parish bell tower: N-1735.
Expansion: six new nodes in 2019, mostly in grids B5, C5 and G2.
Network switched on: 23 nodes installed by 154 volunteers over a weekend.
Founding assembly: the Rancho Coronado Community Net adopts its charter and elects five stewards.