&gt; I play video games, and I can&#x27;t imagine what the latency would be like over a mesh network.<p>1. Neither can anyone, because we don&#x27;t have examples of large-scale usage of mesh networks, and the amount of research that has gone into mesh networks is nowhere near as extensive as exists with ISPs. There&#x27;s no reason to assume that mesh networks will always have higher latency, especially in places where i.e. Comcast is choking connections.<p>2. The small-scale mesh networks which already exist are demonstrably adequate for many, many use-cases. Mesh networks which handle text and image web browsing, email, instant messaging, are still extremely useful even if they have trouble handling streaming video and video games.