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Data Slayer's farmers-market hotspot finds one customer: himself
A Raspberry Pi, Starlink and a chain of HaLow nodes turn spare bandwidth into a working paid Wi-Fi experiment.
In short
On YouTube, Data Slayer has 549,000 subscribers and 87,393,950 views in all, as of November 11, 2026. In the last 7 days it gained 2,000 subscribers and 535,164 views. Its most watched video of the last 30 days is "This Hotspot Pays for Itself", with 646,481 views. By YouTube subscribers it is No. 3,210 of the 5,393 channels on Trari, and No. 97 of 163 in category "Technology reviews and gadgets".
YouTube: The numbers today
subscribers
549,000
▲ 2,000 in the last 7 days
▲ 8,000 in the last 30 days
▲ 8,000 in the last 30 days
total views
87,393,950
▲ 535,164 in the last 7 days
▲ 2,016,277 in the last 30 days
▲ 2,016,277 in the last 30 days
views a day (current pace)
86,914
on a typical day: 80,289
Videos on the channel
256
1 uploaded in the last 30 days
Last upload
12 days ago
October 30, 2026
Views per subscriber
159
a new long video usually gets 371,240 views
Next milestone
750,000 subscribers
201,000 subscribers to go
YouTube: What happened lately
November 2, 2026 4x the channel's usual pace The whole channel ran that day at 268,236 views a day, 4 times a normal day (67,500).
This week on the channel +472K views this week
450 mesh nodes on an East Coast drive, found from Data Slayer's car
A whip antenna on the roof turned a road trip into a hunt for the open-source radio network, some of it solar-powered and hiding in plain s…
The video drawing the most views now
This Hotspot Pays for Itself
- Video published
- October 30, 2026
- Video views so far
- 646,481
- Video views, pace per day
- 14,418
- Views on its first day
- 136,169
Similar channels
YouTube: Position on Trari and in the category
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category Technology reviews and gadgets | |
|---|---|---|
| By subscribers | 3,210 of 5,393 | 97 of 163 |
| By views gained this week | 3,322 of 5,274 | 100 of 163 |
| By views gained in the last 30 days | 3,413 of 5,043 | 111 of 163 |
The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.
- The channel's share of the category
- 0.1% of all views the category's channels gained this week
- Subscriber growth this week
- 0.4% on this channel, 0.0% on the category's middle channel
Subscribers in the category Technology reviews and gadgets
Views gained this week in the category Technology reviews and gadgets
YouTube: Subscribers, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 541,000 subscribers → November 11, 2026: 549,000 subscribers
YouTube: Total views, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 85,377,673 views → November 11, 2026: 87,393,950 views · average: 69,526 views a day
YouTube: The channel's latest videos
The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views | Per day | First day | Likes | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 This Hotspot Pays for Itself | October 30, 2026 | 54:20 | 646,481 | 14,418 | 136,169 | 11,825 | 641 |
 The Open-Source Internet Is Bigger Than I Thought | October 4, 2026 | 12:01 | 66,846 | 173 | - | 2,012 | 222 |
 The Open Source Internet Is Here | September 20, 2026 | 59:02 | 2,646,932 | 2,865 | - | 57,817 | 3,856 |
 The Anywhere Network is Here | August 30, 2026 | 27:02 | 509,655 | 1,049 | - | 8,589 | 552 |
 How to Become Your Own ISP | August 9, 2026 | 21:59 | 1,386,013 | 3,720 | - | 38,832 | 1,837 |
 This Wi-Fi Feels Illegal | July 3, 2026 | 25:13 | 177,966 | 157 | - | 6,803 | 338 |
 Wi-Fi Will Never Be the Same | June 15, 2026 | 6:44 | 111,642 | 83 | - | 4,032 | 254 |
 I Stole This from the Military | May 17, 2026 | 14:21 | 253,820 | 1,738 | - | 8,756 | 395 |
 FaceTime Without the Internet | May 4, 2026 | 23:50 | 364,017 | 279 | - | 11,798 | 765 |
 It's Been a Good Run, ISPs. | April 12, 2026 | 1:13:03 | 378,463 | 383 | - | 13,191 | 1,197 |
 The Internet, Reinvented. | February 22, 2026 | 23:31 | 4,295,447 | 13,578 | - | 112,813 | 5,508 |
 This is a New Kind of Wireless | January 25, 2026 | 22:35 | 199,563 | 458 | - | 5,391 | 280 |
 Generations of Wi-Fi Have Led to This | January 18, 2026 | 26:31 | 567,008 | 657 | - | 16,800 | 857 |
 You’ve Never Seen Antennas Like This | January 4, 2026 | 30:46 | 62,108 | 78 | - | 2,473 | 180 |
 Wi-Fi HaLow Range Test | December 12, 2025 | 1:01 short | 47,021 | 100 | - | 1,224 | 40 |
Audience engagement
- likes per 1,000 views
- 25.8 in the category: 23.3
- comments per 1,000 views
- 1.4 in the category: 1.4
- short vs long
- 1 short (up to 3 minutes), 14 long
average views per short video: 47,021
average views per long video: 833,282
YouTube: Most watched videos (not Shorts)
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
 It’s Been a Good Run, Phone Providers. | April 6, 2024 | 26:31 | 5,908,833 |
| The Internet, Reinvented. | February 22, 2026 | 23:31 | 4,228,137 |
 It’s Been a Good Run, Phone Providers (Part 2) | July 12, 2024 | 15:51 | 3,343,402 |
| The Open Source Internet Is Here | September 20, 2026 | 59:02 | 2,630,525 |
 I Built a $20,000 Military Router for $106.23 | September 3, 2025 | 26:13 | 2,164,143 |
YouTube: Most watched Shorts
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
 I Blew a Dog Whistle at a Dog Park... | April 22, 2023 | 0:56 | 21,912,922 |
 ESP32 = Public Web Server! | December 11, 2023 | 0:59 | 5,889,305 |
 Can chatGPT Program an ESP32? | June 10, 2023 | 0:57 | 3,280,094 |
 How I Use ChatGPT to Program My Raspberry Pi | February 20, 2023 | 0:47 | 2,691,932 |
 Google’s New TPU Turns Raspberry Pi into a Supercomputer! | March 26, 2023 | 1:00 | 2,624,371 |
YouTube: What happened on the channel in the last 30 days
The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.
- Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 268,236 views a day, 4 times a normal day (67,500).
- Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 148,518 views a day, 2.7 times a normal day (54,339).
Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
Stories
This week on the channel +878K views this week
Data Slayer's farmers-market hotspot finds one customer: himself
A Raspberry Pi, Starlink and a chain of HaLow nodes turn spare bandwidth into a working paid Wi-Fi experiment.
This week on the channel +472K views this week
450 mesh nodes on an East Coast drive, found from Data Slayer's car
A whip antenna on the roof turned a road trip into a hunt for the open-source radio network, some of it solar-powered and hiding in plain s…