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Press Release: Knappa, OR

Clatskanie Co-op Launches High Speed Broadband Service in Knappa, OR FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Clatskanie Co-op is excited to announce that it is ready to expand its Althea high speed fixed wireless internet service into Knappa in collaboration with local IT professional Stephen Shumaker. The central connection to fiber, located at the Knappa Market & Chevron station, is scheduled to go live this Wednesday, June 3rd! Once operational, they will begin installing antennas to connect residents who w

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Press Release: Watertown, TN

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Elwell Internet Brings Inexpensive, Reliable Internet Access to Wilson County Watertown,Tennessee,May 29,2020-- Co-Founders of Elwell Internet, Derek Elwell and Dylan Thraen,have partnered with Althea Networks to provide faster, cheaper, de-centralized wireless broadband to residents, business owners, and schools in the Wilson County communities with little or no internet access. Elwell Internet provides a system that lets routers pay each other for bandwidth. This a

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Blockchain

Althea Development Update #84: Operator tools, Peggy developments, and EIP-55 support

A new relay is born, our networks grew 34% between March and April We've been extraordinarily busy working on COVID rapid response [https://blog.althea.net/rapid-connectivity-response/] and the Peggy [https://blog.althea.net/defi-enabled-ethereum-bridge-for-cosmos/] Ethereum to Cosmos bridge. Operator tools We've been building operator focus tools to help Althea scale. The latest versions of the Althea firmware [https://github.com/althea-net/althea-firmware/releases] are tightly integrated with

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Blockchain

Althea Blockchain Update

We want to begin by sincerely thanking all our validators and community members who have supported our project through many months! TL;DR * In 2019, we successfully completed the testing of our custom transaction library and Althea testnets 1-4. * In late 2019, we began work on the design and evaluation of the "Peggy" ethereum-to-cosmos bridge. * In early 2020, we arrived at an improved Peggy design that meets all of our needs. However that is when COVID-19 hit. * Since COVID-19,

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Africa

Althea in Nigeria

Written by Yakubu Yakubu, Nigerian Network Operator/Coordinator Diplomats Park Nigeria has the largest population in Africa at about 200million citizens. However, only 46% of the population have internet access via cellular carriers. Many people lack adequate and qualitative internet connectivity, This is due in part to inefficiency in coming up with innovative technological solutions that address the situation and also big telecommunication companies who would prefer to monopolise the ind

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Rapid Connectivity Response

Rapid Response To address the immediate need for more broadband infrastructure we have put together a Rapid Connectivity Response. This is a plan to build a 100Mbps, affordable broadband network in as little as two weeks. This method can be deployed in both rural and urban environments to rapidly build or expand a network. Althea networks are adaptable, locally based and can be deployed rapidly. Traditional ISPs struggle to make the economics of providing connectivity to rural communities work,

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March Community Update

In the US, 65% of consumers get their internet from just two cable providers. These providers charge too much for slow service and leave behind many Americans who can’t access the internet due to cost. But what if anyone could start or grow a network? What if we could take back our choice, control, and ownership of the internet? Over the past few months, Althea has helped make that dream of ownership and choice a reality for Americans in rural Oregon, Tacoma Washington, and Denver, Colorado. M

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Althea Development Update #82: Direct router deposit with Wyre!

With the new Beta 11 release users can now use the Wyre widget to buy and send funds directly to their router. We've been dreaming about a system like this for a very long time. While Wyre pay isn't available in every state or region where it is available users won't have to navigate Coinbase any longer. The process of buying and then withdrawing to the router was essentailly our largest usability barrier. I'm really looking forward to seeing this in production over the next few weeks. Bugf

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Deborah Simpier is Althea's new CEO!

I’ve been working on Althea since 2015, when I started researching what was possible at the intersection of blockchain and networks (Justin, our CTO, had actually been working on similar concepts since 2013, but we didn’t meet until several years later). Justin and I wrote Althea’s whitepaper in late 2016, and it has held up amazingly well as we’ve implemented the system and got it working in the real world. In early 2018, we established Hawk Networks, inc. to be the company behind the Althea p

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Althea Development Update #80: Phone client networking, MCD upgrade

Happy new year everyone! Since my last blog post [https://blog.althea.net/althea-development-update-79/] I've managed to implement the alternate network design I proposed. Phone client design proposed in update #79, now implemented and functionalThe major hudles where as follows. 1. Turns out Ipv6 multicast sockets need to be rebound on all network change events AND on a timer in order to work consistently. 2. Getting Android to route your app over WiFi networks that aren't detected to

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abuja

2019 - A Year in Review

2019 has been a key year for Althea. We implemented our billing software and grew our network in Oregon. From there, we launched a training and onboarding program which brought in new network organizers, each starting a new Althea network in their community. In the latter part of the year, two new networks came to life in Tacoma and Abuja, Nigeria. In the New Year, we are looking forward to building our own blockchain on Cosmos, wifi hotspot to phone capability, and seeing many more of these net

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Althea Development Update #79: Things Android won't let you do

Android devices as IPv6 mesh network participants Recently we've been working on a phone client for Althea [https://blog.althea.net/althea-development-update-78-building-a-phone-client/]. Our first design was to have every phone as a Babel node, advertising it's own routes and generally functioning independently. It turns out Android will let you do this, but only in a very specific way that's not useful to us. Hopefully someone else finds the knowledge useful. The restrictions 1. Android d

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abuja

November Community Update

We are excited to share the latest Althea news! Over the last few months, many of our prospective deployments are getting close to launch, and networks in Tacoma, Washington, and Abuja, Nigeria have broken ground. New Altheahoods have also started in Phillipsburg, Tempe, DuBois, Grand Island, and South Africa. The network in Clatskanie, Oregon has around 50 subscribers now and over 70 people are waiting for Althea internet. The reach in Clatskanie continues to grow mostly through the efforts of

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Althea

Althea and MakerDAO partner for Abuja Network powered by Dai

Althea, a system that lets routers pay each other for bandwidth, is launching its first network in Africa in early November 2019. An initial pilot network will start with about 15 participants. A partnership between MakerDAO and Althea will then help bootstrap the expansion of the network, bringing in more gear and better bandwidth. Althea is a decentralized ISP solution, operated by local people, where neighbors resell bandwidth to neighbors, creating a distributed network of routers paying eac

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debugging

Althea Development Update #77: Hiding in plain sight

Since our last update I’ve encountered a couple of bugs where the problem had been hiding in plain sight. In one case for weeks and another for a year or more. Discovering root causes long term subtle bugs is both satisfying and important to create a better product.

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Roles in the Althea network

The difference between Althea and most networks is that Althea is decentralized and so different members of the public can perform different roles.

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Althea business

Introduction to Researching Market Potential

Researching market potential is an important part of starting an Althea network. While adding more links to an existing Althea network is relatively easy, setting up that network is similar to starting a wireless ISP business and requires research and planning to ensure that take rate and revenue make sense. The three basic things to consider when evaluating an area are wholesale backhaul, competition, and an understanding of the community and demographics. Wholesale Backhaul Buying backhaul

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Althea validator update: Hard fork governance proposal passed

A few weeks ago, we started a governance proposal on altheazone4 to vote on the next hard fork. This time, it will be scripted. Read my summary about it here [https://blog.althea.net/results-of-the-altheatest4-hard-fork/#next-validator-challenge]. The proposal passed [https://althea.zone/#/governance/2] last week, and we are currently planning how to do it. We will most likely use a script that will wrap the gaiad binary. This script, when run, will start gaiad and also start a process that po

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