Post #1551573
2026-01-25 12:22 UTC
Meshtastic gives you three hops by default (and strongly advises against going beyond that, even if the maximum is seven). The furthest node I see right now is about 200 km away.
MeshCore gives you 64 hops. They can afford that because MeshCore devices send way less telemetry by default; Meshtastic assumes that you want to broadcast e.g. your GPS position regularly. The furthest node I see right now is about 50 km away.
By the way, while LoRaWAN is a thing, neither Meshtastic not MeshCore are really designed for data traffic. Owing to the low (and shared) bandwidth, they're more like IRC over radio.
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@Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2026-01-25 13:13
Oh yeah I wasn't really thinking of downloading porn over it, but internet at least gives a global network to connect into. Text communication is still a form of data and if it can be used normally day to day then you have more infrastructure that people are used to using and is still usable in a disaster as well, even if you lose access to all WAN nodes you should have local communication.