The network is somebody’s roof
Repeaters hosted on homes, rooftops, towers, businesses and other elevated sites are what create useful regional paths. Every node below sits on ground somebody lent us. None of it is carrier infrastructure, and none of it bills anyone by the month.
- Hosted by the community
- Open protocol, no accounts
- Free to use, free to leave
The three entries below are placeholders while the photographs and the commissioning figures are collected. Names, locations and specifications will change.
On the network today
Bostwick Road, southwest LondonBostwick RPT
A MeshCore repeater on the Bostwick Road corridor in southwest London, Ontario, carrying traffic between the southwest approaches and the rest of the city mesh.
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Bostwick Road, southwest LondonBostwick Room
A MeshCore room server co-located with Bostwick RPT in southwest London, Ontario: a shared room that holds messages for anyone who was out of range when they were sent.
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Southcrest RPT
A MeshCore repeater in the Southcrest area of south London, Ontario, carrying the south end of the city mesh toward the Highway 401 corridor.
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A repeater is only as good as what it can see
Height decides range, and almost nothing else does. Ten metres of clear line of sight is worth more than any amount of transmit power, which is why a grain leg, a church tower or a third-storey gable can matter more to a region than the hardware bolted to it.
What hosting one asks of you
Somewhere with a view
A roof, a mast, a tower, a barn gable, a hill. If you can see a long way from it, the radio can too. We survey the site before anybody commits to anything.
- No minimum height
- Rural sites welcome
- We do the modelling
Power, or not even that
A weatherproof outlet is easiest. Where there is no mains we fit solar and a battery sized for a Canadian December, so the node is still up in the week it matters.
- Mains, PoE or solar
- A few watts, continuous
- No internet required
Almost nothing else
The node carries short text and telemetry for people passing through the region. It is not a Wi-Fi hotspot, it does not touch your network, and it cannot see your traffic.
- No cameras, no audio
- Off your LAN entirely
- Removed on request
Have a roof, a tower or a hill?
Tell us roughly where it is and how high it stands. We will model what it would open up before either of us spends anything, and say so plainly if the answer is nothing.