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Meh.... very very low range. For ~$20 you can get a LoRa dongle and https://meshtastic.org/ https://meshtastic.org/, and with some luck (someone putting a node
by ajsnigrutin 3y ago
Meh.... very very low range.
For ~$20 you can get a LoRa dongle and https://meshtastic.org/ https://meshtastic.org/, and with some luck (someone putting a node on a hgh building or a hill), you can reach quite impressive distances.
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- esafak 3y agoThis appears to intended to enable activists to organize protests with just their phones when the centralized telecommunication infrastructure is disrupted by the government. It is a different use case.
- ajsnigrutin 3y agoYou'll never get a critical mass of nerds to make such a short-range mesh viable. On the other hand, a $20 meshtastic node somewhere up a highrise can cover half the city
- sunshine-o 3y agoInteresting but what kind of load could it take ? From what I remember the data rate with LoRa is very low... In this case how many user could chat simultaneously? 10s, 100s, 1000s, more?
- bnpxft 3y agoThe Meshtastic site says that supports up to 80 device nodes depending on settings used. It is more geared towards a group of trusted people communicated with each other than a general purpose network anyone can use.