Observed arrival · 2026-09-28
ROCTheNet: Rochester’s rooftop-owned internet
A community network describes how rooftop radios, volunteer installs, and household connections could bring wireless internet across Rochester.
- For
- Rochester residents near reachable rooftops
- Worth noticing
- A dinner-plate-sized dish links a home to a rooftop it can see; a fast household connection can temporarily bridge an out-of-reach neighborhood.
Field notes
The network's stated topology runs from a downtown data-center connection to tall rooftop antennas, then to small home dishes and ordinary Wi-Fi routers. A building can host an antenna or connect its units; where radio cannot yet reach, the page describes an encrypted tunnel over a volunteer's fast connection, with an outbound-only port and a bandwidth cap the project says it can lower on request. The page says the tunnel depends on that household's circuit.
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