Stories about Mesh Networks.
31 postsAlthea'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?
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
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…
For the first time we have something ready to put on our releases page.
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…
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…
It’s been an eventful couple of weeks for us.
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…
Althea now has 4 full time users with more in the immediate pipeline and longer term plans shaping up.
Jehan and @scottwxrks have rounded out our website update over the past couple of weeks. We now have a map showing active Althea…
Its been a very busy two weeks since my last update.
Since our last update we’ve managed to solve our Rust cross compilation issues pretty handily. There’s some binary size optimization that…
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…
