I was recently made aware of WiFi HaLow. Official standard, ranges into the hundreds of meters. Speed suffers at long ranges of course, but still respectable (50-100kbs).

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ah

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BlackRabbit1 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Difficult within the EU due to ISM limits.

Maybe ok for your garden camera where the authorities just don't care. But no go for any industrial usage.

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euduhdhbene an hour ago | parent | next [-]

We have devices sending telemetry and occasional OTA updates without urgency (if it takes a few hours to get it over it’s not a problem).

If you need consistent MB range traffic for cameras I wouldn’t advise it but for low (5kbs) traffic it can be attractive. A few thousand bits can encode quite a bit of information. Don’t be fooled by the “kbs”.

	▲	metek 29 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You can do quite a lot with a few MB. Don't tell every React behemoth on the web that we know this trick.

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mrjay42 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Phew, I looked it up, just by curiosity. What a nightmare :') the rules, regulations, laws are damn strict Oo

	▲	BlackRabbit1 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Usually this rules are for experts who have to implement the limits. They should not be exposed to end-users.

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moffkalast 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Dead outside the US unfortunately, worse range than regular wifi due to being strangled by lower channel width and ridicolously low power limits. The two bulky HaLowLink routers are the only off the shelf thing with support for it, it's nonexistent as a wifi standard.

I was so excited when I discovered it a few months back after struggling for years to set up reliable wifi for outdoor robotics, only to realize we can't have nice things. The struggle continues.