Sorry, the article is more of a broad overall comparison, and I wanted to help others who are new to LoRa tech a well. Might help explain why each are beneficial.
For those currently running a repeater or device, or even experience with several nodes, which do you run? What brand? Any recommendations or suggestions?
I plan on using both but worried signals might be crossed or interfere since their frequencies are so similar. MC for at home and MT for on-the-go or shtf and we all need to meet up, etc.
Reticulum it is for me :)
This sounds stupid, but it talks about privacy and flexibility of various connections, but if you integrated over internet or WiFi, wouldn’t the packet conversion setup be problematic including metadata for its destination? How else unless you had some sort of converting device at the receiving end, which then has IP address and other potentially identifiable into attached, even if there message is encrypted.
What real benefit does RNode have over Meshtastic or Meshcore?
Just seems like a “too good to be true” type deal.
I live in a densely populated area, so meshcore. Meshtastic self jams when there’s too many nodes.
Makes sense. I’m outside the dense area, and looking at the meshcore map there’s 2 repeaters a few miles in either direction so it’d be nice to expand the network
But meshtastic would still be beneficial too for family nearby
I think interference isn’t much of a problem with protocols like LoRa. Unless you do things like pump out packets at full capacity:
Meshtastic adopts CSMA/CA, similar as to what is used in WiFi. This means that all transmitters must perform Channel Activity Detection (CAD) before attempting to transmit. If the channel is considered busy, the node will wait until it is not anymore. […]
Meshtastic as Meshcore isn’t fully foss
