Here is the idea on programming, the setup.
https://www.linksys.com/us/support-article?articleNum=136548
I took an old linksys router and made a connection to the RF output through an N connector to outside. Put the router/accesspoint in a weatherproof box on top of telephone pole. ran cat 5 up pole and power up pole to operate it.
It is easy to build a feedhorn antenna from 18” piece of 4” diameter aluminum irrigation pipe with plate welded on the end. Place 1/4 wave stub antenna 1/4 wave length in front of the end plate (I’ll have to refresh my memory for exact distance) but diameter of the 1/4 wave sub affects the length to resonance.
Point I’m trying to make, it is possible to circumvent the system.
The old light tower that’s been turned into a bed and breakfast off the coast of NC uses a small satellite dish to pull and internet signal from a tower on the mainland over 40 miles away.
Frying Pan Tower. The guy who owns it has the instructions set-up somewhere online.