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It's a good idea for higher density.

I could probably reach two of my neighbors (two shared walls), but not more without better equipment. Actually, because of how our construction is, I could probably do a 3-way mesh router setup and put one node in each place.

I had an acquaintance who wanted to start a company flashing a custom OpenWRT image onto Linksys routers, he added a little captive portal with billing through Stripe so he could collect the neighbor's portion.

Your comment reminded me to go check and see if he ever decided to go through with it.

I recall looking into this a long time ago, certainly could do it, but recall some terms and conditions that prohibited it maybe.

The other thing is even with all that bandwidth, there is the 1.25TB monthly bandwidth cap, which is one way I think they limit scenarios like this.

Good idea though thanks for suggesting it.




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