> The point to point customer antenna added ~6ms of latency
For one hop. The OP literally has Mesh in the name, so I'd expect a large multiple of that. Especially given that NYC's highrises would likely make it harder to provide direct line of sight.
> Same server from my gigabit fiber to the apartment unit
That doesn't say much unless they're colocated geographically, and the rest of the equipment is equivalent. Especially since 1.1.1.1 is heavily anycasted (like most other public DNS servers).
For the record, my results look like this (also using consumer-grade gigabit fiber):
teo ~ ping 1.1.1.1
PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=1.45 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=58 time=1.49 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=58 time=1.47 ms
> tl;dr Wireless point to point is easily competitive to Cable on speed
Very curious about your customer density here. It may be competitive for a few customers, but I suspect that interference from neighbors would cause a sharp drop in urban areas if everyone bought in.
> For one hop. The OP literally has Mesh in the name, so I'd expect a large multiple of that. Especially given that NYC's highrises would likely make it harder to provide direct line of sight.
First off I will note that the goal posts here have been moved. Your original statement was that any wireless effort was doomed. This has now been revised to include many hops and distance to the internet exchange.
NYC mesh uses very traditional WISP equipment and OSPF routing (for the most part, also last I talked to them was a while ago)
If you look at their map they have several two hop nodes.
But to get back on subject Althea has exactly the sort of network your interested in since we're focusing on building a distributed, incentivized, mesh WISP. More than half of our users are behind two or more hops.
Most of these links are degraded by trees and distance, causing higher than ideal latencies. The users are ecstatic though, their only other options are 1mbps DSL or sat internet. No other WISP will enter the area because line of sight is so challenging.
I will also note this is literally the cheapest gear off the shelf. It gets 100mbps to the user but has serious problems with retrying packets it should just drop.
Each hop provides many degrees of freedom, we haven't found a need for more than two hops at all yet.
If we where in an urban area getting a couple of ms would be much easier, interference free 60ghz and shorter distances.
For one hop. The OP literally has Mesh in the name, so I'd expect a large multiple of that. Especially given that NYC's highrises would likely make it harder to provide direct line of sight.
> Same server from my gigabit fiber to the apartment unit
That doesn't say much unless they're colocated geographically, and the rest of the equipment is equivalent. Especially since 1.1.1.1 is heavily anycasted (like most other public DNS servers).
For the record, my results look like this (also using consumer-grade gigabit fiber):
> tl;dr Wireless point to point is easily competitive to Cable on speedVery curious about your customer density here. It may be competitive for a few customers, but I suspect that interference from neighbors would cause a sharp drop in urban areas if everyone bought in.