I've recently wondered, what's the maximum bandwidth that can be pushed through a mesh network? Where would current wireless technology max out if significant portions of currently-allocated spectrum were reassigned for general consumer and business use, and used to build mesh networks?<p>For example, would it be feasible to reallocate FM and AM spectrum for general-use wireless mesh networks, and then replace the lost commercial radio service by installing, let's say, mesh routers in automobiles and having them programmed to easily pull audio streams from radio broadcasters via a pervasive wireless mesh network?<p>In other words, how close could we get to replacing the current broadcast TV/radio infrastructure (in terms of broadcasting and consuming video and audio) with mesh-routed wireless IP communications, if all of that spectrum were made available to be used by the mesh network?<p>Would pervasive mesh networking be more feasible if more spectrum were made available, and if so, could the displaced services be replaced via IP over the mesh network itself?
There seems to be so many meshnet projects. Is there any comprehensive list of them? Both actual deployments and related software/hardware projects.