Mesh Networks Going Where Others Cannot Althea's core premise is our "neighbour to neighbour, pay-per-forward" model. A model that revolutionizes how internet service is owned, provided and paid for. Why did we reinvent the wheel? What can Althea do that traditional ISPs cannot?
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
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.
Blockchain The Althea governance model Althea is a system that lets routers pay each other directly for bandwidth, similar to how ISPs peer with one another on the internet…
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…
Rust Cross-compiling Complex Rust Programs for OpenWrt Targets We made Rust our language of choice for Althea because we wanted to have our cake and eat it to. The ability to use a rich ecosystem of…
