I've been thinking about doing this in my local area, but it will require more work and funds.
I also can't seem to get my directional antenna to work properly and have no idea why.
The true problem I see here is how could we connect cities with each other. Inside the city we can use regular wifi, but I don't know what kind of distance we could get with these long range antennas and if that would be enough to connect cities with each other.
I would love to work on this stuff, but this will take a lot of time with limited funds, I will keep it as a long term goal however.
https://www.ubnt.com/airfiber/airfiber5/ 13 - 100 Km range depending on the model - lets take the 100km range (in perfect conditions) - so really more like 20 km with trees and buildings (complete guess) -
now lets take a relatively small country, lets say Belgium - 30,000 sq. km - assuming the wifi range is 100km surface of a circle is
pi*r^2 =
pi*100^2 = 31,000 sq. km - in theory - only one of their network backhaul model AFU/U would cover all of Belgium - now assuming the range of 20 km - the surface area of the network backhaul would be roughly 1200 sq. Km per unit - so more about 30 would cover Belgium.
here is a map of NYCs mesh network - the Red lines connect Nodes via Air wifi
https://nycmesh.net/map/I think it is doable, even easy to start by yourself, but it much harder to scale out and get adoption when people are so used to just only one way of getting internet access