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tastyfreeze01/16/20261 replyview on HN

Any licensed wireless networking gear is going to operate in very specific frequencies. The government requires it! If we were going for "the best" gear for avoiding detection you would have frequency hopping with jumps far enough apart that a listener has a harder time pinpointing a transmitter. Making repeaters roving makes it even harder for your adversary.


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phoronixrly01/19/2026

The same government can trivially make these frequencies completely unusable by just blasting noise across all the ISM frequency bands. As far as I read, it is already happening in Russia, making LoRA anything but long-range...