[inigyou]

Well they want to abuse ham radio spectrum to extend their home internet an extra kilometer, but they've just found out they can't, and that's annoying.

Which is for good reason. If everyone did that, it would be so congested that nobody could do that.

[ErroneousBosh]

Why would you piss about using amateur radio for that when you can go 20-30km with cheap off-the-shelf microwave links?

[inigyou]

In which frequency band? 2.4GHz?

[ErroneousBosh]

2.4 or 5.8GHz - take a look at the NanoStation 5ACs. They cost pennies and have about 15km range.

If you want further you can spend about a ton and get a pair of LiteBeam 5ACs instead.

[tzs]

With a ham license you could use up to 1500W, which is around 200x what those have. If you were on top of a mountain and had a friend on top of a mountain 150 km away you could establish a reliable, stable point to point WiFi connection.

Over shorter range, but still more than what those low power devices can do, you could stream multiple 4K videos simultaneous where the low power devices would be crawling.

Not many people will need to do this, especially with the limits on encryption, but that's OK. Ham radio is not supposed to substitute for other radio services. It's supposed to be about learning about radio and providing a backup when other systems fail during disasters.