I’ve seen some resources floating around including, if I’m not mistaken, a spreadsheet that adds up all the costs of everything you need.

Basically I want to create an internet coop that’s resistant to internet shutdowns and can keep running in situations where the wider internet is shut down but we still have electricity.

  • blobjim [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I think the first step is become a “network engineer”. If you wouldn’t consider yourself that already then there’s your first step that should keep you busy for a while. The rest should make sense once you’ve done that.

    I assume it’s a lot of stuff with BGP and other communication protocols for managing networks. There’s lots of open source software you can use, but configuring it gets really hairy like all network configuration.

    • MeetMeAtTheMovies [they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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      1 month ago

      This is very fair. I have a home lab that I like to use to over engineer my home network with and run simulations on, I worked beneath a network engineer for a while as an intern, and studied for my CCNA for a while. So not a network engineer, but not completely inept either. As I said in another comment, I’m hoping to either learn enough to cobble together existing tech or learn enough to explain to myself why this is a bad idea. Either is fine.