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If I live in one state and my parents live a few states over, would I be able to use this network to communicate with them? Not sure if this is a mesh network for long range routing.

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[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

HAM radio is about it for long comms that aren't dependent on other systems.

Even then it takes technical skill on both ends to make that work.