All you need is some off-the-shelf parts and two enormous mountains that are 237 miles apart from each other. Ermanno Pietrosemoli managed to set up a wireless connection from El Aguila in Venezuela, to Platillon Mountain, at a rather impressive speed of 3mbps.

I’m sure that almost all coverage of this will include a joke along the lines of, ‘I can’t even get WiFi in my [insert place that you should get WiFi, the more comical the better]!’ It’s true though, isn’t it? WiFi coverage is rubbish in most places, except the International Space Station, the North Pole and a mountain top in South America.

All you need is some off-the-shelf parts and two enormous mountains that are 237 miles apart from each other. Ermanno Pietrosemoli managed to set up a wireless connection from El Aguila in Venezuela, to Platillon Mountain, at a rather impressive speed of 3mbps.

I’m sure that almost all coverage of this will include a joke along the lines of, ‘I can’t even get WiFi in my [insert place that you should get WiFi, the more comical the better]!’ It’s true though, isn’t it? WiFi coverage is rubbish in most places, except the International Space Station, the North Pole and a mountain top in South America.