PhreakNET is the volunteer-operated network that's spun up in support of PhreakNIC, our favorite unhinged hacker con.
WiFi: Creds are PhreakNET:PhreakNET for the regular network. No isolation, no captive portal, no bullshit.
2.4 Ghz: Got some retrocomputing to do? PhreakNET-2.4:PhreakNET-2.4. Also no isolation/captive portal.
Guest WiFi: Creds are PhreakNET_isolated:PhreakNET. Still no captive portal, but a minimum of bullshit (aka logging into the network and then not being bothered again for 144,000 minutes unless your MAC address changes). Use this one if you have no plans on using any of the hosted services and only want an internet connection.
Wired: If you're asking for wired access, it's because you're doing some sort of mirroring from PhreakNAS. Bring your own ethernet cable. If your laptop is too thin/new to have an RJ45 port, you'll have to bring your own adapter. 2.5 gigabit ports are available in limited quantities upon request. If you want a 10 gig internal connection to the main network, these ports are available in even more limited quantities. Bring your own DAC, some sort of alcohol-related bribe, and a damn good reason. There's no network isolation.
The Clarion pays for gigabit internet. Unlike 2024, their internal network is now a /20. Using their Walmart grade shitnet might be fine, but PhreakNET will probably be a better experience.
PhreakNET is a mix of 10G, 2.5G, and gigabit internally, and purposely kept as simple as possible so that it's not in the way. The services that have internal DNS records also have resolveable short names. To minimize drunken confusion, you need to be connected to PhreakNET in order to access these services.
PhreakNAS: 2026's primary reason to join PhreakNET. In addition to copyparty, we're offeirng jellyfin and kiwix this year. This server is on a 10 gig connection. Everything that was on copyparty last year has been migrated over, with some additions.
copyparty: The primary reason you might want to join PhreakNET. It's the one service on the network that has a 10 gig connection. Among other things, you'll find the vx-underground malware files, an archive of the past PhreakNIC videos, as well as a bunch of data breaches and old hacking zines. We're bringing 11 TB of data, with a spare 13 TB available for uploads. Happy hunting!
There currently aren't any other planned services, aside from some backend stuff for up/down alerting. If you have an idea for a service and it can run on Debian, run it by us and we might provision something during the conference.