[walrus01]

You're wasting your own time and those of your "customers" unless you have at least $750,000 to establish a serious presence, in my opinion. Amateur-hour WISP stuff is fine in a rural area. You're pretending to be a highly reliable capable ISP, and will eventually either overextend yourselves, run out of rubes to fund you as a nonprofit, or once you reach a size much bigger than you are now, get stomped on and obliterated by a much larger competitor that overbuilds your entire network with carrier-grade infrastructure and takes all your revenue.

[nycmesh]

We are already self funded by individual donations. Every question I answer seems to bring up new objections.

[JustSomeNobody]

This thread has to be one of the most overtly hostile threads I've read on HN in a while. What is your concern here? Why do you seem to feel they shouldn't even be trying?

What ISP are you affiliated with?

[nycmesh]

We bypass traditional ISPs by connecting directly at an internet exchange point (DE-CIX IXP) and peering with other networks. This is basically how the internet is formed, by networks peering with each other. We don't need this ISP layer.

[untog]

I think the OP was asking what ISP walrus1 works for, given they've already identified themselves as a network engineer.

[JustSomeNobody]

I was referring to walrus1. Sorry for the confusion. Y'all keep doing what you're doing. I have big hopes for efforts like yours.

[nycmesh]

Thanks!