Tech
Althea Development Update #62: Free tier design and the life of a packet
Since our last update bandwidth payments have been making their way down the stabilization pipeline we’re going to roll out Alpha 12 to…
Internet
Metered Bandwidth on Althea
In this post I’m going to explain Althea’s billing system and how it provides more transparency, choice, and control than the traditional…
Blockchain
Althea Development Update #60: Teaching people to setup real gear
Globetrotting and training
Blockchain
Althea Development Update #59: Experiments in real world payments
Check out our new website Althea.org
Tech
Althea Development Update #58: Online Port toggling, more payments progress
Deborah and Jehan spent last week in Medellin Colombia helping to setup an Althea network there. You should read Deborah’s blog post about…
Blockchain
Althea Development Update #55: Network organizer features
I’m very happy to say that since our last update we’ve had about 8 devices be put into real world use without any of the failures/crashes…
Tech
Althea Development Update #54: Better networking management, moving on deployments
What’s new in Alpha 8
Tech
Althea Development Update #53: Timelines and building rock solid software
I’m happy to say that we’ve brought on board 3 new developers since our last update. We’ve also expanded the marketing team to add some…
Performance
Althea Development Update #52: Asking the right questions about performance
Here’s our Alpha 6 release
DNS
Outage report: False DNS responses
When I was selecting the default DNS settings for the Althea firmware I wanted to choose a few publicly available but privacy focused DNS…
Ipv6
Outage report: ipv6 broadcast packets and old Ubiquiti radio firmwares
On the week of June 4th we rolled out the Alpha 3 software update to Althea devices. Shortly thereafter the Clatskani network went down.
Rustlang
Althea Development Update #50: Putting out fires in production
Last update we created a ‘stable’ release channel and rolled out our latest and greatest to the 7 devices we had in production.
Rustlang
Althea Development Update #49: A stable release schedule and governance
For the first time we have something ready to put on our releases page.
Tech
Althea Development Update #48: Bringing old buildings into the future
These last couple of weeks have been an all out code sprint on our way to Alpha 3, productivity is pretty rapid now that the groundwork is…
VPN
Althea Development Update #47: Alpha 2 Milestone
I’m proud to announce the alpha 2 milestone for Althea. In Alpha 1 firmware setup was too tightly integrated into the build process to…
Mesh Networks
Althea Development Update #46: User Interface Design
It’s been an eventful couple of weeks for us.
Software Development
Althea Development Update #45: Thinking about governance
Now that we’ve had stuff in the field for a few weeks we’re rolling back our focus on shipping new users and instead focusing on polishing…
Tech
Althea Development Update #44: Picking up steam
Althea now has 4 full time users with more in the immediate pipeline and longer term plans shaping up.
Mesh Networks
Althea Development Update #43: Website refresh, support for more routers
Jehan and @scottwxrks have rounded out our website update over the past couple of weeks. We now have a map showing active Althea…
Raspberry Pi
Althea Development Update #42: Serial Number Zero
Its been a very busy two weeks since my last update.
Rust
Althea Development Update #41: Proving out Rust and Network polish
Since our last update we’ve managed to solve our Rust cross compilation issues pretty handily. There’s some binary size optimization that…