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I've not been recycling my tin cans and I have a whole shitload of string. Happy to share.
I'll take 3 bags full. One for the master (coordinator) and one for the slave (endpoints), and one for the little girl who lives down the lane (Fitgirl Repacks)
My remembering of that line is "and one for the dame", and I grew up in the deep south…strange
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Queue IT Crowd episode...
Meshtastic sounds great in concept but IMO it's useless in most parts of the world due to it's extreme low power.
If all your neighbours have one or there aren't many buidings around blocking line of sight then meshtastic has great potential. Otherwise I would stuck be sending messages to myself.
Now, they made boards with more power that operated and crossed at several different frequency bands, specially shortwave, then meshtastic would be an incredibility powerful too. However illegal.
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What timezone, OP?
Jitsi link: https://meet.jit.si/whatiftheinternetgoesdown
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Is there a map that shows where are using them? It looks like a fun idea, but I don't want to get something and no one is using it in my region. (Outback Australia)
Being shown in maps like this is opt-in, so there's an unknown amount of users which are not displayed.
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I should download classic wow servers game and addons for long term storage in case of WW3 🤔 and wikipedia too
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Huh? Can anyone explain what all these words mean? Mesh? Ham radio? How does this work is it like toy walkie talkie?
They’re a mesh walkie-talkie, but you don’t need to walkie or talkie 😁
Meshnet means that if A can see B and B can see C, then A can message C, it’s routed through B automatically.
Also it’s text only, not enough bandwidth for speech
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How resilient is something like Meshtastic? My understanding is that anyone can configure their device poorly so that it can become overly chatty, congesting the network. Even in ideal an ideal scenario with properly configured nodes, could this actually survive if it saw more than hobbiest adoption?
I think it's really cool and i like having this idea of a backup communication system, but if has serious range limitations and is likely to be overwhelmed in a no-cell scenario is it even worth it, or is it just fun to play around with?
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