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> 1Mbps over 3km doesn't sound exactly impressive by itself. People have been doing multikilometer wifi links for ages now.

It's _omnidirectional_. You don't need to point it.

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Regular wifi doesn't need to be pointed either, unless there is interference. It goes about 2-3km.

source: had the only wifi point for hundreds of km in Afghanistan.

Line of Sight in a mostly empty area probably gets you a lot of range but even then I find 2-3km using "regular wifi" a little hard to swallow. 1.25-1.86 mile omnidirectionally is way too far unless you have some special thing going on like your router is high up, or using a high power (1w or more) transmission, or both.

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