> And sadly, as long as there's a market, there will be products. Moreover, if there is no market, one will soon be created to fill the void and make some mone

> And sadly, as long as there's a market, there will be products. Moreover, if there is no market, one will soon be created to fill the void and make some money of any 'underused' resource until it saturates. > I often want to assemble low bandwidth low power (solar powered even) router nodes. Something you could drop in a field and have a mile radius range of wifi (some people on youtube got more than that with a tiny esp8266 IC). The rest would be some mesh network topology. Just enough for simple data, emergency, maybe compressed voice you know. People will laugh at you. If I understood correctly, 4G (not DOS ;-) ) has become a basic human right, and no-one should be deprived of it for a 10 minutes ride, be it in an underground 20 metres below surface or in a country bus in the middle of nowhere. I mean, megabit 3G is already almost everywhere in the country, but it seems it is not enough for a decent human life.