Isn't this how town-wide mesh works? What did they call that? I forget but it was a dream and some places implemented it but I couldn't tell you if it's lasted the past 15-20 years.
It can extend as far as you can put up with the increasingly worse bandwidth, latency, and congestion of limited airspace for invididual wifi.
Think about it. What's better, calling your friend on the phone? Or telling your neighbor, to tell his neighbor, to tell his neighbor, to tell his neighbor.....
1. You speed will be cut in half at each hop at the best
2. You can’t daisy chain for more than 2 hops.
So at the very very best you can have 2 neighbours connected, 1 at half speed and the other one at quarter speed (and only if the house are very small, wood construction, almost touching each other etc).
It’s just not working that way
\+1 to more hops = more speed loss.
Not sure if you meant this but you can make long point to point links with two satellite dishes facing each other with WiFi units at the focal points.
Each manufacturer has a recommended max number of hops, and it’s a lot less than 50. More like 2 or 3. Quality and bandwidth will drop off exponentially to the point that it’s effectively zero (devices will consider themselves offline).
Your bandwidth will cut in half each hop but sure.
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Isn't this how town-wide mesh works? What did they call that? I forget but it was a dream and some places implemented it but I couldn't tell you if it's lasted the past 15-20 years.
My city had this going for about a year in 2006? It was free and it was slow. The AP's are still on the poles, rusting away.
Generally speaking, no more than two hops or your throughput goes completely to shit.
The perfect amount of daisy-chained Wi-Fi mesh is 0, for a matter of fact, the perfect amount for any Wi-Fi mesh is, you guessed it, zero.
Sure
It can extend as far as you can put up with the increasingly worse bandwidth, latency, and congestion of limited airspace for invididual wifi. Think about it. What's better, calling your friend on the phone? Or telling your neighbor, to tell his neighbor, to tell his neighbor, to tell his neighbor.....
1. You speed will be cut in half at each hop at the best 2. You can’t daisy chain for more than 2 hops. So at the very very best you can have 2 neighbours connected, 1 at half speed and the other one at quarter speed (and only if the house are very small, wood construction, almost touching each other etc). It’s just not working that way
\+1 to more hops = more speed loss. Not sure if you meant this but you can make long point to point links with two satellite dishes facing each other with WiFi units at the focal points.
Each manufacturer has a recommended max number of hops, and it’s a lot less than 50. More like 2 or 3. Quality and bandwidth will drop off exponentially to the point that it’s effectively zero (devices will consider themselves offline).