Post #4395977
2026-08-05 21:26 UTC
@marsik@witter.cz @circfruit@fosstodon.org @everton137@social.vivaldi.net @fdlamotte@mamot.fr That’s something to think about. I’d like to ask: what about power consumption? Since we #reticulum fans want to minimize our dependence on hardware and third parties as much as possible, does Wi-Fi have terrible power consumption compared to LoRa? Even though Wi-Fi has a much higher data transfer rate than LoRa. I think there are already solar-powered Wi-Fi projects, but how energy-intensive are they compared to LoRa? It’s great that every device has Wi-Fi these days, so we can take advantage of it. How much power does a directional Wi-Fi antenna consume over a range of about 2 km compared to LoRa? Thank you.
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@everton137@social.vivaldi.net 2026-08-05 21:43
@prometheuspetrosss@mas.to I’d have to check the precise numbers, but my understanding is that Wi-Fi generally consumes much more power, making it harder to deploy large numbers of solar-powered nodes. Still, since Reticulum can route across different interfaces, couldn’t a Wi-Fi mesh become another segment of the wider Reticulum network, connected through bridge nodes to a LoRa segment? That could combine LoRa’s range and low power consumption with Wi-Fi’s much higher bandwidth. @marsik@witter.cz @circfruit@fosstodon.org @fdlamotte@mamot.fr