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Cross State Communication (piefed.social)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by TechnoCat@piefed.social to c/meshtastic@mander.xyz

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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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[–] cm@chaos.social 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

@gkaklas My take is that for the given constraints (low-power, cheap, low-bandwidth) it works pretty well. If you want a more flexible (but way less beginner-friendly) mesh, have a look at reticulum, that can use all kinds of transport technologies.

[–] gkaklas@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

for the given constraints (low-power, cheap, low-bandwidth) it works pretty well.

Of course! I'm just curious about 1) what are the real world use cases (e.g. my farm example) and 2) how come Meshtastic™®© is so popular with people who experiment with RF but don't have these constraints; how come that having a couple of points of failure (either in the nodes or the technology) and not being able to experiment outside of LoRa™®© is not more of an issue

(For example I found:)

Reticulum

I was looking into it, seems more like what I have in mind, thank you!