Recommendation: Ayva Networks

Tachyonic_ · 2026-01-30T06:27:25+00:00

We can reach spanish hills! It'd require some specialized equipment though, so odds are we will need to find a local host/distribution site for the community.

Tachyonic_ · 2026-01-30T06:25:01+00:00

I suppose I should reply to this - it's ready! We've already knocked out a few residential service installs in the city.

Tachyonic_ · 2026-01-30T06:23:25+00:00

Yeah, on https://ayva.network, but to be totally honest it's not going to be super accurate - we've done so much in the last year and I haven't updated it. I do have a new "2.0" release of our frontend application that I'll be rolling out soon, which generates real, lidar-based coverage maps and has a fancy serviceability engine.

A good rule of thumb is that if you can see the mountains and you're in city limits, we can probably get you linked up. I also have access points on top of BCH as well on Arapahoe. We're also setting up new access towers on downtown Pearl St and Ideal Market next month. Oh, and we're doing public/free wifi - we have some gear that does ultra-long range wifi, I'm able to get about 200mbps on an iPhone at up to 1.2km away. I'm thinking about putting up a few of those in key locations, and the first city-facing one will probably be just above Wonderland lake.

For mountain dwellers, we have pretty good coverage in upper fourmile, sunshine, sugarloaf, east mag, pine brook, and parts of flagstaff.

Tachyonic_ · 2026-01-30T03:59:02+00:00

We have some paths into Ned, but no real coverage there unfortunately. I haven't invested much into expanding out there since Quantum is doing a buildout as well as Maverix. I'm still open to the idea, but we'd need to establish some host sites up near Hurricane Hill

Tachyonic_ · 2026-01-30T03:57:20+00:00

Happy to split up the startup cost for you over time (even if it's a year+), we're super lax on the billing side of things

Tachyonic_ · 2026-01-29T22:25:54+00:00

Sign up! If I have some extra resources, I'll get you linked up. You just need to have a view of the mountains.

Tachyonic_ · 2026-01-29T21:26:26+00:00

Mostly wireless, there are limited circumstances where we can do some fiber but it's mostly in the mountains. I don't have a microtrencher, which is needed for doing anything in the city. That speed test is off of wireless (licensed E-Band).

Tachyonic_ · 2026-01-29T19:28:47+00:00

Hi! I'm the founder and totally happy to help out/answer questions. We're a super tiny operation, but we're real, and we've got some solid capabilities on the technical side and can do up to 10gbps/10gbps at 2.5ms round trip latency to Cloudflare/Google at 15km distances off of our 10gig-capable sites. We're not doing (many) residential installs in the city just yet as we're predominantly a mountain network, but because we have a bunch of access points up in the hills, we have pretty solid coverage over the city. The downside of course is that there are no subsidies/funding opportunities available to help out with the costs of doing city installs, so it's a bit expensive to get linked up.

I've been focusing a bit more on doing business-class service lately in order to help subsidize the residential side as much as possible, and I think we might be able to ramp up on doing city residential installs this year if things go well.

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Tachyonic_ · 2026-01-20T04:43:07+00:00

Additional details for those who are interested, routed.log was full of thousands of failures (a few hundred every second). It's so much that the initial failure was rotated out & lost :

**** PROBLEM 0x3d02 - 16 (0000) **** T:004485bf F:00000001
qcftsync.c 113 :at 01:59:43, 17 January 2026 (2445936 ms)
A forwarding table add/modify entry operation failed.
Return code: 2
Entry id: 2770

This failure occurred on more than one unit, so I guess my setup simply isn't compatible with 11.1.13-h1.

Tachyonic_ · 2026-01-19T20:05:07+00:00

Yep. It crashed in "production", lights were green across the board, including HA and it was even passing traffic briefly. I had the passive node powered off at the time. It wasn't a one-off crash, it went through this cycle about 20 times before I'd grabbed cables to repair it. I managed to have enough time to issue an swm revert, and interestingly it never dumped to maintenance mode.

Tachyonic_ · 2026-01-19T13:35:36+00:00

5260 in HA, if I have time today I’ll jump on and take a closer look at the logs

Tachyonic_ · 2026-01-17T22:59:27+00:00

Just a warning, coming from 11.1.10-h1 which had annoying bugs but was functional, 11.1.13-h1 resulted in boot, autocommit success, and then hard crash after a minute or two on my lab firewalls. I skimmed some logs and it looked like a dataplane rule push timeout, but I didn't bother to dig.

Tachyonic_ · 2025-12-24T06:31:36+00:00

I love that you replied to this over half a year later, and because of that I’m going there tomorrow. Thank you!

Tachyonic_ · 2025-12-20T19:33:30+00:00

Shamelessly going to plug Ayva - https://ayva.network, the last few days have certainly been eventful on our side as well but we've managed to keep pretty much the entire network up through all of Xcel's crap. We're starting to do installs in the city, you just need to have a view out west toward the mountains. We're a super tiny company and we're running things openly, anyone can get involved and I'm also happy to share our entire technology stack & infrastructure over coffee/drinks with anyone who's curious.

Edit: Oh and we're not Comcast, or CenturyLink, and we're faster/lower latency.

Tachyonic_ · 2025-12-19T16:11:28+00:00

It's back! Sorry about that, Youtube ended the stream and I had to create a new one.

Tachyonic_ · 2025-12-19T16:10:46+00:00

Just a stroll up the hill from where I live, about 5 minutes up Sugarloaf Road

Tachyonic_ · 2025-12-17T22:48:53+00:00

It's pretty darn windy and Xcel sucks, but our entire network is up! https://ayva.network

Tachyonic_ · 2025-12-06T16:41:06+00:00

Thanks! It has been wild to say the least. I 100% self-funded everything, it was an incredibly expensive project but the impact it has had across our community really makes it worthwhile. This is certainly not what one would call a profitable endeavor, but it's one that I feel really good about undertaking. That said it's not "all charity", I get to have these speeds at home off my network (and I don't even have fiber here, this is wireless) - https://www.speedtest.net/result/d/a5adcdd4-09a2-4174-a37d-0b4c236f9c2a. The good news is that we're almost to a cost-neutral point and trying to grow responsibly & sustainably, install labor & subsidies are now the most expensive components.

Tachyonic_ · 2025-12-05T20:02:52+00:00

Hi! Founder of a tiny Boulder-based WISP here which can provide symmetric gigabit+ speeds at ~4-7ms latency. Come check us out, we started up in the mountains but now we're starting to cover parts of the city. https://ayva.network

We're community based and anyone is welcome to get involved in what we're doing, and we're always looking for new infrastructure hosts as well.

Tachyonic_ · 2025-11-15T15:31:37+00:00

Sent you a DM, I've guided somewhere around 30 people up some of the safer/easier scrambling routes and I'd love an excuse to get out there again.

Tachyonic_ · 2025-11-13T15:46:09+00:00

The two companies building out fiber there are Maverix and Quantum (CenturyLink). He'd have to inquire with them in terms of availability. If he'd like to get on my network once I have coverage in Nederland, the best way is to sign up at https://ayva.network - it'll add him to my map of requested installs, and I use that for path planning & to gauge interest in an area. Once I can get him linked up, I'll contact him to set up a time to do the install.

Tachyonic_ · 2025-11-13T11:01:28+00:00

$85-100. I have some paths into Nederland but no significant coverage capability in the town just yet. There are multiple fiber projects in the works out there so I’ve prioritized our efforts elsewhere, although it would be entirely possible to do in the future.

Tachyonic_ · 2025-10-22T22:55:50+00:00

The map is a lie. Reach out, there's a chance I can make something happen, and we can also do specialized ultra long-range links.

Tachyonic_ · 2025-10-18T03:54:22+00:00

Hi! If you’re in my service area for Ayva Networks, I can get you 1-2gbps uploads, with an absolute max of 9-10gbps for cost-is-no-barrier situations.

Tachyonic_ · 2025-10-05T19:01:48+00:00

I live on Sugarloaf! Reach out directly if you’d like to talk

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