About the network
Vista del Rey covers about 19 blocks of Los Angeles’s north side, mostly stucco bungalows and courtyard apartments. The network was built by the neighborhood development corporation after a school district survey found students doing homework in fast-food parking lots for the signal.
Schematic
Hover over or tap a node for its details, and click or tap again to open it. With a keyboard, move to the schematic and use the arrow keys.
Uptime
99.97% uptime over the last 90 days, with no days of degraded service or maintenance.
Governance
- Owned by
- Vista del Rey Community Network Cooperative
- Legal home
- Nonprofit corporation with a member-elected board
- Members
- 760 households, one vote each
- Monthly assembly
- Last Tuesday of each month, 7:30 pm, at the community health center’s meeting room
- Annual assembly
- Every April
- Maintenance fund
- $4 a month per household, suggested. No household is disconnected for not paying.
Stewards
Elected by the members. Listed by first name and initial.
- Sione L.Network steward · since 2019
- Felix F.Treasurer · since 2022
- Azadeh H.Membership steward · since 2023
- Dalia A.Training steward · since 2020
- Maria T.Rooftops steward · since 2021
- Miguel R.Secretary · since 2019
Backhaul
Links that carry the network’s traffic to the wider internet.
| Link | Medium | Capacity | Far end | Peak use yesterday |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LT-37-BH1 | Fiber | 10 Gbps | Los Angeles internet exchange | 11% |
| LT-37-BH2 | Fiber, donated by the library system | 1 Gbps | Public library network | 31% |
Maintenance log
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 2 enclosures.
Annual assembly: 42 members attended and elected three stewards.
Hardware refresh: 18 nodes upgraded to Stoop R6 over the year.
Grounding on N-1584 redone after an inspection found a corroded lug.
Annual assembly: 48 members attended and elected two stewards.
New hub on the housing cooperative roof, nine storeys: N-3143.
Steward training on monitoring and fault-finding: 22 attended.
Tree trimming along two backbone paths, with the city’s parks crew.
N-1586 moved to the other side of the roof to clear a new air-conditioning unit.
Grounding on N-2031 redone after an inspection found a corroded lug.
Hardware refresh: 13 nodes upgraded to Stoop R5 over the year.
Firmware 4.0 rolled out to every node.
Network switched on: 26 nodes installed by 43 volunteers over a weekend.
Founding assembly: the Vista del Rey Community Network Cooperative adopts its charter and elects five stewards.