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Sounds like a point-to-point directional wifi radio. They're far from a hack and have been used to great success upwards of 2miles away from each other with 1Gbps throughput, even for small ISPs.

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Yeah I can’t remember what it was. Someone said laser link above, I feel like it was microwave - I do remember being concerned we’d cook birds.

Yeah, it was probably microwave.

Faster communication and cooked birds to eat, what's the downside?

Well, it was in the early 2000s so I doubt wireless would have given any reasonable bandwidth. Sounds more like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-space_optical_communica... at least that's what we had those days.

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