Yeah, that doesn't really fit the bill. I'm talking about HAM radio definitions of 'long distance', where one of the shorter hops is ~150 miles. I might as wel

Yeah, that doesn't really fit the bill. I'm talking about HAM radio definitions of 'long distance', where one of the shorter hops is ~150 miles. I might as well stick with Part 15 as use U-NII. That's the problem - hn regularly has threads talking about how decentralized infrastructure is so important. Having a (dialup speed) p2p network that is built on long range connections would be insanely reliable and would probably revolutionize what we think of as the Internet. - ISPs would be optional - access to the internet would be the one-time cost of the hardware - a totalitarian government trying to shutdown the internet would have to hunt down portable repeaters over hundreds of square miles - the infrastructure would be in the hands of the people, not megacorps like verizon and comcast. But that requires encryption, and spectrum allocations that can cover the distance.