@stman @vidak @50htz @theruran @forthy42 I don't think #RONJA's development was actively sabotaged.

• I just assume that #WiFi over longer distances just got better and cheaper, longer range and faster #COTS products that due to lowered regulation and certified conformity didn't require any costly permits and frequency allocations compared to licensed spectrum links.

In fact, @BNetzA did extend frequency allocations for #BFWA useage and dedicaded the 5,8 GHz band to to #WISP|s that want to provide #broadband in rural areas.

• So it's not the fault of RONJA or it's devs, but the fault of WiFi and proprietary solutions to have caught up.

Personally, I do wish for #OpticalLinks more because they are not just less prone to eavesdropping, but also less taxing on the increasingly scarce resource that is #RadioSpectrum and that we should be more mindful of, espechally since the solution to overcrowded #spectrum is rather obnoxious as in "dialing up power consumption to implement ever more complex coding schemes"...

• Not to mention it's easier to secure an optical link and I think that it would be best if said system could universally tunnel any data, from Serial to USB and from 10/100M Ethernet to anything else, as having a "Universal Visible-light Optical Link" (maybe even call it "#UVOL", cuz "VOL" and "UVLOL" or "ULOL" may be too much of a bad take) could really do wounders.

Even if it can only do like 12Mbit/s for USB 2.0 it'll still be practical for many use-cases.

• As you said: You want to focus on the "modem" part first...