▲ 433 ▼ This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service (www.howtogeek.com) submitted 1 year ago by jwr1@kbin.earth to c/technology@lemmy.world 102 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] MangoCats@feddit.it 5 points 1 year ago [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent replies: [–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 year ago (-1 children) "WiFi goes down" Or more to the point, the ISP fails. A Wi-Fi router isn't that much more difficult to power than a meshtastic node, but my old ISP, I don't think they even bothered to install UPSes, if the power was out, so was the internet. I could keep my Wi-Fi up indefinitely, but it's basically useless outside my house. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow -1 child comments load more comments (-1 replies) [–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 1 point 1 year ago (-1 children) They're a godsend for camping, and would be legendary in a disaster event. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow -1 child comments load more comments (-1 replies)
[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 year ago (-1 children) "WiFi goes down" Or more to the point, the ISP fails. A Wi-Fi router isn't that much more difficult to power than a meshtastic node, but my old ISP, I don't think they even bothered to install UPSes, if the power was out, so was the internet. I could keep my Wi-Fi up indefinitely, but it's basically useless outside my house. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow -1 child comments load more comments (-1 replies)
[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 1 point 1 year ago (-1 children) They're a godsend for camping, and would be legendary in a disaster event. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow -1 child comments load more comments (-1 replies)