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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That sounds like a fantastic way to go. You might also look at meshtastic.

It's a much different use case, being for text messaging and stuff like that only. But, while it may be low bandwidth, it's still incredibly interesting.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    https://reticulum.network/ is also pretty good for small info packets. Does a LOT more than meshtastic...but its VERY difficult to set up. Or at least it was for me.

    Its a pipe dream but having small internet without a major ISP would be fantastic. But it will never happen as it is. Friends are thinking of creating a meshnet though just for fun.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I jumped on Meshtastic but found it got too congested with noise in a medium-sized city making it difficult to get much out there. Switched to Meshcore and have had a much better time communicating. Seattle's full on made it equivalent to SMS, which makes me jealous. But YMMV 🤷🏼‍♂️

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    What preset were you using at the time? I know that longfast is not the best preset for larger networks that have a lot of users.

    Personally, open source matters to me much more than the speed or congestion or whatever, which is why I chose meshtastic. Because the mesh core, foam applications are not open source.

    Until there is an open source version, I absolutely refuse to touch it. I know that the underlying software is open source, but without having open source interfaces, I'm still refusing to touch it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Yes, the bandwidth would be the damper there. It's great for transmitting just a little bit of data, long distances. But for any sort of bigger data we transmit regularly on phones and desktop. It becomes unfeasible, even low resolution images.It definitely has a range benefit, though that's for sure.I think fellow Missourian Jeff Geerling had a video out a while back where he talked about using it to contact people below his flight on the way to open sauce.

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