Post #4395983
2026-08-05 15:20 UTC
@everton137@social.vivaldi.net @fdlamotte@mamot.fr yup, meshtastic and meshcore are great, but only for short text. Reticulum is a bit more advanced, but its LoRa side comes with a cost: minimum spreading factor 8 (to avoid clogging the air with many packets) and shorter distance, because of the lower spreading factor. Transport nodes with Rnode interfaces on shorter distances would massively increase adoption in my opinion.
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@marsik@witter.cz 2026-08-05 15:51
@circfruit@fosstodon.org @everton137@social.vivaldi.net @fdlamotte@mamot.fr I would still prefer WiFi and 2.4 GHz. Reticulum can use it too (I am not a fan though) The hardware is ubiquous (every laptop and cell phone and ESP has it) and legally the band is not as limited as the 868 ISM one. And the achievable speed of even the oldest 802.11b is 11 Mbps! (LoRa is at maximum few kbps) Both LoRa and WiFi bands are line of sight (+ reflections) anyway, so there is not much disadvantage there in the 2.4G band (except water absorbtion).