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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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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago

Ive seen some people theoretically do it with meshcore with a lot of repeaters, but the amount of hops was crazy. Its just not practical unless you get into ham or something.