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1. Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2017 17:57:51 EST Christine Lemmer-Webber

   40% of Detroit lacks internet access so these folks are making it happen with a mesh network https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kz3xyz/detroit-mesh-network

   1. Stephen Michael Kellat (alpacaherder@quitter.se)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2017 20:41:30 EST Stephen Michael Kellat

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      @cwebber I don’t have enough cows let alone varmints logging on to anything to make mesh work here.  Too much space between human clusters.
   2. Nudist Adventures (automaticorange@niu.moe)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2017 20:02:07 EST Nudist Adventures

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      @cwebber Suburban Detroit resident checking in. Comcast has had a strangle hold on the region forever. If you go into Detroit city you will see sattilate dishes on almost every house because Comcast refuses to upgrade the infrastructure. Wide Open West is no better. They almost didn't install in my city because were not "a financially sound investment"

   3. Nudist Adventures (automaticorange@niu.moe)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2017 20:14:26 EST Nudist Adventures

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      @cwebber Dan Gilbert (Founder of Quicken Loans, ) has been pouring money into the city for years, mostly in the downtown core area to attract gentrification and hipsters . His latest baby is Rocket Fiber. This is a FIOS service in the downtown and midtown area (Where all the rich white people are)
      https://rocketfiber.com/service-map/. It would be nice if this mesh network could tie into this service so the people who really need the Internet to better there lives could have a solid backbone connection.