The previous version wasn't "flood" routing. Because flood routing would have worked better. I called it "spray and pray" routing.

It was something like this:

1. Router repeats first

2. Weakest repeating device by signal strength next

What if both of those options are in a basement, or say have a damaged antenna, or are miles in the opposite direction of where you want the signal to go?

By simply putting up a router somewhere you might be severely impacting the comms of people at your edge.