Oddbean

Very cool episode, thank you! I'm playing with Reticulum which has a bit more mature architecture, you guys are would love it. It runs on the same devices, but also IP / I2P, wifi halow (the new wifi standard that's up to one km range). It is a networking stack though, it can do ssh, messaging over the radio through the city, I even ported ecash cashu over it so you can send sats. It is done mostly by this one cool guy Mark who lives in an RV and puts all his soul and time to this. And it is actually meshing, if there's a route, it finds it. Neighbors can do wifi, you go further over lora. Very cool. And it's encrypted by default. The messaging apps can work over wifi, so if you have a node at your home (or an RV), when your phone connects to the wifi, it automatically connects to the mesh. If you send a message, the node forwards it through lora or whatever https://fountain.fm/episode/Thk97UqdpIL6BJLNPmFo nostr:nevent1qvzqqqpxquqzqdsxw83ldz3e4aj8c4kkllm8gcq699zawzxsvqucc4rvygtph9gp5v3sxu

I never used reticulum but reading about it this is my favorite part: "Reticulum does not include source addresses on any packets" So many resources are spent on IP based networks just to obscure the source address. It is IP's most glaring and insurmountable flaw

Even if you don't use Reticulum, just reading the design is beautiful. Mark got so many things right. For example encryption by default, medium agnostic, supporting super low bandwidth networks, but allowing universality. And then you get to see the Sideband app which is the messenger and you get disaster team maps complete with GPS telemetry, situation reports, ... It's just beautiful. Also, many times I played with the code, I thought I could do something better and then I just realized why Mark did it the way he did and it's way better. I can improve it by adding features, but what is there is just a piece of art.

What is the bandwidth of it? Can it be used as replacement for classical network? Would be great if I can just turn off my home router and run all my devices in a mesh and pretend nothing has changed. But I am probably just daydreaming.

bandwidth depends on the physical medium. you can do wifi and the bandwidth is like wifi. LoRA is super slow, but that is only one of the options, it runs over almost any network you can also run IP over reticulum, but probably not the best for your use case