Co-op Guerrilla Meshnets

Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net
Tue Dec 3 18:02:29 PST 2019


When one or two get together to co-op, and leave competition at the
door, abundance tends to prevail...

Cerate our world ;)



On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 08:29:23PM -0500, grarpamp wrote:
> https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-one-traffic-light-town-with-some-of-the-fastest-internet-in-the-us
> 
> Not an example of distributed DIY co-op, but a story anyway...
> 
> McKee, an Appalachian town of about twelve hundred tucked into the
> Pigeon Roost Creek valley, is the seat of Jackson County, one of the
> poorest counties in the country. There’s a sit-down restaurant,
> Opal’s, that serves the weekday breakfast-and-lunch crowd, one traffic
> light, a library, a few health clinics, eight churches, a Dairy Queen,
> a pair of dollar stores, and some of the fastest Internet in the
> United States. Subscribers to Peoples Rural Telephone Cooperative
> (P.R.T.C.), which covers all of Jackson County and the adjacent Owsley
> County, can get speeds of up to one gigabit per second, and the
> coöperative is planning to upgrade the system to ten gigabits. (By
> contrast, where I live, in the mountains above Lake Champlain, we are
> lucky to get three megabytes.) For nearly fifteen million Americans
> living in sparsely populated communities, there is no broadband
> Internet service at all.
> 
> Fibre-optic cables strung above a home in Jackson County, Kentucky,
> one of the poorest counties in the country. High-speed broadband has
> been used to bring Internet-based jobs to the region.
> Before Shani Hays began providing tech support for Apple from her
> home, in McKee, Kentucky, she worked at a prison as a corrections
> officer assigned to male sex offenders, making nine dollars an hour.
> After less than a year, she switched to working nights on an assembly
> line at a car-parts factory, where she felt safer. More recently,
> Hays, who is fifty-four, was an aide at a nursing home, putting in a
> full workweek in a single weekend and driving eighty-five miles to get
> there. Then her son-in-law, who was married to Hays’s oldest daughter,
> got addicted to crystal meth and became physically abusive. Hays’s
> daughter started using, too. The son-in-law went to jail. Their kids
> were placed in foster care. Then Hays’s stepmother got cancer. “There
> was a lot going on,” Hays told me. “I was just trying to keep it all
> together.” She began working from home last summer, which has allowed
> her to gain custody of her three grandchildren. (Her daughter has
> since completed treatment for her addiction.) During Hays’s half-hour
> lunch break, she makes supper. “I wouldn’t be able to do this without
> the Internet we have here,” she said.


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