alt Hacker NewsWifi routers use quite a lot of power for the area that they can cover. Ten watts or so for a hundred square meters is a lot of you want to cover a whole city.
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apitman • 06/16/2025
Yes but in exchange you get way more bandwidth. No idea whether it would be enough to run a city-scale text network though.
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Almost everyone has one of these running 24/7 already. Second one with an external antenna wouldn’t make much difference.