Comment by lormayna

Comment by lormayna a day ago

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I am into Meshtastic but the coverage, at least in Italy, is low and depends a lot on the position. If you are in a city, you can get many neighbors nodes, otherwise you need to be at high altitude, relying on other nodes or use a directional antenna.

Anyway, it's a nice hobby to learn a lot about solar powered systems and antennas/propagation.

I think that one of the best use cases for Meshtastic is to use it during protests, especially in authoritarian countries.

powgpu a day ago

yeah it is kinda like starting your own internet infrastructure.

For protest there are already bluetooth messenger for that:

https://briarproject.org

but yeah it is only for Android.

  • nunobrito a day ago

    That is a crappy project. Please try it yourself to see how badly it fails.

    At present there simply exist no good BLE messengers any more since recent updates to the BLE stack.