Ruben, et. al, you can sign in with _any_ gmail.com <http://gmail.com/> credential. I’m sorry that this is the only option at the moment, but working on getting some more public access of sorts.
> Jeremy, with which account should we log in? Because we are asked to log into the metabase.
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> 73
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> Ruben ON3RVH
Hello all, I’m sorry to escalate this back to the list, but I’d like to report that there is still significant commercial abuse of AMPRNet allocated subnets in violation of the AMPRNet Terms-of-Service and nothing appears to have been done about it, despite my repeated attempts to raise the issue with the abuse(a)ampr.org <mailto:abuse@ampr.org> mailbox.
There are some 260 Helium Hotspot miners using the address space 44.144.124.0/23 to earn monetary rewards on the Helium cryptocurrency blockchain. While I am a fan of Helium and have managed to make it my full-time job, I am not a fan of seeing the AMPRNet address allocations be abused this way.
Can we discuss this here, as a group?
73,
Jeremy
While the abuse concerns should be addressed off list, I think there
may be benefit from some basic discussion about this network. I'd be
willing to bet most are unaware of this network, that it mostly uses
LoRA modulation to build a decentralized network for slower speed data
applications.
I feel there is a good amount of overlap to what we do in ham radio
and there could be things learned from it.
I'd be interested in knowing who is using the helium network (package
delivery folks I'd assume, among others) and what light weight
protocols and data they use.
A few years back someone at a DCC meeting did suggest the concept of
just such a network for the internet of things. And there have been a
few papers on LoRA.
I'm not interested in the crypto aspect of the network nor does that
fit the discussion here. But if the hardware entry cost was lower or
there was a way to build your own gateway I'd probably be doing that.
Pity there isn't enough of density of interested hams locally to do
what they are doing.
So is there anyone else doing things with LoRa chipset enabled
hardware with dialup speed applications in or out of ham radio.?
Today our external IP for the IPIP tunnel towards 44.137.0.0/16 has changed from 213.222.29.194 to 145.220.78.2
It appears that some stations have configured this statically, so it has to be changed.
(of course those that use the RIP transmissions from AMPRGW have no issue with this)
Rob
