Transforming Connectivity
159 posts · Page 5Althea now supports multihomed exits, meaning a single exit can be run across multiple datacenters and bridged into the mesh like any other alternate route. The other major change is the creation of a 'low balance' mode.
It was raining. It always seems to rain just as we pack up the rig with all of the antennas, cables, and tools. My fellow subnet organizer, Shaun, and I were heading to install a new Althea user. A few previous installs under our belt, we are getting better at packing the necessary tools and the process of installing seems to take less time. It's still takes about an hour and a half to install or sometimes several hours if there are complications. As we pull up to the house, Shaun eyes a dense
we released payments and then immediately set about doubling the size of our test network. In doing so we had raised the bar for the quality of our features and interfaces.
It’s difficult for big telecom to make money selling bandwidth to small rural towns or low income urban areas, otherwise they would already be there. Internet poverty exists because there is little economic incentive for those who build the internet infrastructure to provide service to these areas. This is further complicated by the centralized nature of legacy ISPs, which are slow-moving and utilize rigid and expensive pathways to build out infrastructure. Currently, government granting progra
> Rolled out @AltheaOrg [https://twitter.com/AltheaOrg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Beta 1 today in production. Members of the Clatskanie Co-op are loading up their routers with ethereum, which automatically pays my router for bandwidth. Exciting stuff! pic.twitter.com/uCUftWoDDG [https://t.co/uCUftWoDDG] — Deborah Simpier (@DeborahSimpier) January 23, 2019 [https://twitter.com/DeborahSimpier/status/1087895771502891008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] The last couple of weeks have been busy, we're at about 50% Bet
Starting at 8pm Pacific time yesterday through 3am Pacific time today Althea’s exit servers were down. This is our first major (longer than a 15 minute) outage since June of 2018. The technical issue exposed is pretty minor, the real feedback here is about a series of failures in our incident recovery procedure. Primary Causes: * Incorrect configuration of per process file descriptor limits on the exits * Recovery failure of some client devices Failures in incident response procedure: *
Right now Beta 1 rc2 is churning it’s way through the build system Once this release passes QA in a couple of days we will have out first Althea build with feature complete routing and bandwidth payment. Beta 1 will be able to, dynamically route, buy , and sell bandwidth with production Ethereum. Everything described in our original demo video, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyFEYEcHJyA&t=2s] but ready for use as the primary ISP for the households and businesses of our test networks. There
Since our last update bandwidth payments have been making their way down the stabilization pipeline we’re going to roll out Alpha 12 to…
In this post I’m going to explain Althea’s billing system and how it provides more transparency, choice, and control than the traditional…
Globetrotting and training
Check out our new website Althea.org
Me and Deborah Simpier were just talking about the role of decentralized node-to-node payments vs “federated” subnet DAO payments in…
Deborah and Jehan spent last week in Medellin Colombia helping to setup an Althea network there. You should read Deborah’s blog post about…
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…
What’s new in Alpha 8
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…
Here’s our Alpha 6 release
When I was selecting the default DNS settings for the Althea firmware I wanted to choose a few publicly available but privacy focused DNS…
On the week of June 4th we rolled out the Alpha 3 software update to Althea devices. Shortly thereafter the Clatskani network went down.
Last update we created a ‘stable’ release channel and rolled out our latest and greatest to the 7 devices we had in production.
Althea is a system that lets routers pay each other directly for bandwidth, similar to how ISPs peer with one another on the internet…
