• tetris11@feddit.uk
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    2 months ago

    How does it work over long distances though? I thought mesh was more for local communications between devices, and then relays into internet for anything wider. If internet goes down, aren’t you limited to your neighbours?

    Your book sounds really interesting – I’ve read one or two generation ship themed books, but they always end violently (religious priest overthrows corrupt leader, or population kept naive to the ship and all questions are stifled out, etc)

    By Mediterranean food, you mean like decent salad (lemon, vinegar, olive oil) and bulgur pilaf?

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      2 months ago

      how does meshtastic work over distance? in theory really good, as all nodes act as a repeater. in practice? not so well, might have to install some nodes around the city. they aren’t expensive, but they aren’t cheap either.

      by Mediterranean food I mean the food culture of basically every Mediterranean nation. they are all so good. and it’s also less focus on a big piece of meat and more on the whole assemble, and generally varied and healthy meals.

      what do you do?

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        2 months ago

        Hmm! I will have to do some tests then. I wonder if it’s possible to share dial-up level internet over the radios

        I’m a nobody, I just hack and tinker with whatever interests me. Currently playing with some Kindle/MobileRead stuff, and mainlining some old devices. What about you?

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          2 months ago

          meshtastic internet!!!

          been thinking about it, it’s open source, the “sending messages” is already there it just need to be automated in a browser…

          in theory tcp/ip over lora is possible. and probably not that hard to program.

          only question is if doing something like that would clog up the network.