With this purely hypothetical mesh network, ideally files would be spread out across the network, bittorrent style. If the mesh has a single node bridging two

With this purely hypothetical mesh network, ideally files would be spread out across the network, bittorrent style. If the mesh has a single node bridging two otherwise large and connected graphs, then the mesh network would be in a poor state to begin with. This is assuming a healthy network. More realistically, ISPs could place far higher bandwidth limits on local (to NZ) traffic. That is, if it is just the undersea cables that are lacking, not the rest of the infrastructure as well... I'm not saying either of these are realistic or easy. I'm just saying that the sarcastic quip "I'm sure ad-hoc mesh wifi is an excellent solution to limited across-the-ocean bandwidth." is not a real criticism of the proposal.