[backwoods-engineer]

who has designed secret cross-border links to the internet for people in several countries, does so by adding standard USB dongles designed for home Wi-Fi networks. Thus equipped, two properly aligned dishes as much as 100km apart can transmit enough data to carry high quality video. Moreover, the beam is so tightly focused that equipment a mere dozen metres away from its line would struggle to detect it.

Sure. The dish illumination won't be optimal using that USB dongle as a feed, but so what? It allows you to do something you could never do with the USB dongle alone.

[listenhillary]

100km isn’t a stretch? 62 miles?

[frithguild]

It allows you to do something you could never do with the USB dongle alone.

That sounds just, ... , illicit

[roamer_1]

Sure. The dish illumination won't be optimal using that USB dongle as a feed, but so what? It allows you to do something you could never do with the USB dongle alone.

This is a really interesting technology to me... For the purpose of hooking up hillbillies to the wire. A low cost line-of-sight operation like this, that could propagate a network to a bunch of families, till one got to a house with a dsl connection would be a really cool thing... If a guy could use a pci device rather than USB, it would eliminate a bunch of layers... I wonder if a router could be used in the same fashion....