[Ndr] Heard from Nick in St. John, RIPE Probes

[Nicholas Harland]

Hey all,

I just got back to the states from St John last night. What an insane trip. With help from provider viNGN, St John was able to have a public wifi hotspot up and working 4 days after Irma. It would have been two days, but the backhaul from viNGN's beach manhole to their CLS (or FAP in their nomenclature) was aerial fiber which was damage and had to be restrung precariously on downed poles. The following day wifi was extended to the National Park Service building which was acting as the hub for all disaster relief agencies (FEMA, Red Cross, Coast Guard, USPHS), and the day after that was extended to some businesses (grocery store, pharmacy, western union) as well a hotel that was being used by media and some responders and a resort complex that is built like a storm proof fortress where many critical personal, displaced residents, and business owners were using as a base and shelter from Maria. 


This wifi network was initially built using gear that was already on the island, borrowed and repurposed.. We just got the first shipment of new gear onto the island yesterday on a private gulfstream 200, but now have access to significant logistics support from DIRT including access to military and civilian helos 

> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Martin Hannigan <hannigan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I have all of the Wifi gear sitting in my spare bedroom. I'm going to go ahead and config one this evening and send out a draft tonight or early tomorrow.
> 
> Im going to reach out to Bevil to find out how to help Tortola.
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> Nick, impressions on if this is helpful work or not since you were there?
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> Tks
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>> On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 08:46 Martin Hannigan <hannigan at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> All, 
>> 
>> Heard from Nick in St. John. They lost internet island wide. He's looking to connect with STT and he has the radio gear to send IP if he can find a place to do it from. I passed him Stanfords email and hopefully they can connect.
>> 
>> I also found a way to find internet services, just no in the Caribbean. There is 1 probe on STT and there are a few on Puerto Rico. We should add a probe to whatever we send out. Future. but looking for probes to find alive internet is interesting if they are there.
>> 
>> Im expecting the shipment from Coresite today (tks chris). Keep you posted.
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