Let the journey begin 🤙

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Get two more


These airwaves go farther at night, but I don't think they go THAT far 😩 Have fun, brother!


Same here


Awesome I’m trying one out in our town also.


Have fun!


With the right antenna THEY SURE DO😄😄😄😄😎


I'm surprised to find nodes that are an hour's drive away at night.


These things are addictive. I want more.
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It is a beautiful thing to behold 😄💜


I still don't understand Meshtastic. I understand the tech and the transmission of data over radio, but where is the internet access coming from? Is their an ISP that provides service to the Meshtastic network? And what's the bandwidth like? Is it just basic text, or can you stream and do all the stuff you can do with broadband?


Each unit can be configured several ways.  It can be a client device connected to a bluetooth mobile device, a relay node, or it can be configured with broadband to connect with another gateway to join two distant meshes via the internet.


Do you have a link that breaks this all down? I'm really curious but I want to make sure I'm getting good information.


TLDR; you're correct, it never connects to the "internet*"

Most simple, raw-to-raw use case
- one meshtastic device connected to another. Can only message between them
*unless you config it to do so


Ok so generally speaking, it's a network that facilitates communication with other network users? So, you have a user identity, or a node identity, and you can have public or private chats with other users of the mesh network?


In short, yes


Ok, cool. I'm gonna look into it further. It's sounds like fun, and a cool project.


Why not just text people ?


What fun is that? Building an ad hoc mesh network and talking to other like-minded nerds from across the network is a lot more amusing.


I feel like no one would even have one near me and I’ll just be talking to myself lol


Onward 🫡

Onward 🫡


I've heard that same concern from new Meshtastic users, and many have been pleasantly surprised to find that there are nodes within networking distance from their location. Obviously that's not going to be the case for everyone, but if you live in a populated area, you may be surprised.


I just may be surprised


doing this as well


I think this one may be next. Thoughts?

https://lilygo.cc/products/t-echo


Same, I get the principles. But there's so many options, not sure where to start 🤔


Great little devices I recommend