Naturally purpose-fitted SoCs are better at the job. I was thinking of cheap ad hoc nodes that could be quickly added to a mesh “backbone” to extend the coverage. Expecting full Internet speed would be unrealistic. Outside of local node access, traffic would probably be down to email and Usenet type traffic, minus the binaries.
Refugee camps are a special case, a permanent fixed disaster area.
Heh, imagine a scenario where the Internet is down, cell phones are down, but landlines are up. Start digging out those modems to bridge between meshes.
The government down situations would be the worst, where the Internet is cut, or heavily monitored/censored. Look at Iran or North Korea.
