Ordinary users pay 59 euros (65 dollars) for a wireless access point. Typically they pay somebody 20 euros to install the directed antenna outside the building.

Ordinary users pay 59 euros (65 dollars) for a wireless access point. Typically they pay somebody 20 euros to install the directed antenna outside the building. For directed wifi connections, you can get up to 20-50 Mb/s or single digit Mb/s. Some links are very long - up to 10 kms. Obviously, over many hops it degrades, but most traffic goes to the Internet gateway right now - which is never too far. There are also users around the network with outside access who offer their machines as Internet proxies. Many of these are used, so a lot of traffic terminates inside Guifi.net at those points as well. The cost was born by people who wanted cheap Internet. 65 bucks for free Internet.