• cm0002@lemmy.worldOP
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    13 hours ago

    isn’t it just a mobile cell band at that point

    Yes and no, it’s true it can get similar distance and somewhat similar data speeds as a cell tower

    But, at 900MHz you don’t need a license to run it so you can do cool things, like a community WiFi mesh kinda like meshtastic, but with real speeds where hosting mesh-only websites and services become realistic

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      12 hours ago

      You can run 5g on unlicensed spectrum too, and there are fully open source 5g stacks. The primary issue there is that most phones don’t have the hardware to connect to those networks. But the same is true right now of wifi on 900 MHz.

      • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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        3 hours ago

        Right, but ah to ah mesh, then ac WAPs at opportune locations. This will allow communities to connect to one another, and have local access to current devices. This ah looks pretty amazing tbh