I ran some Meshtastic nodes for a while, same overall experience. Rarely saw nearby nodes, never communicated anything more than a basic "HELLO"/"ACK" kind of

I ran some Meshtastic nodes for a while, same overall experience. Rarely saw nearby nodes, never communicated anything more than a basic "HELLO"/"ACK" kind of thing. It's a neat idea for things like a distributed sensor network on your own property, or other IoT kinds of comms. It's not a practical platform for human to human comms, especially in a disaster scenario.