shortwavesurfer20096d agoI feel like I need to clarify my position a little bit.
I'm actually in no way against meshcore, and from what little I have used meshcore open, I actually think it does some things way better than meshtastic, that they could definitely learn from.
The two biggest things right now that come to mind are
1. Mesh core companions don't relay messages except in that new outdoors mode, which takes them off of the standard mesh and puts them all together on a separate frequency. Makes total sense to me. Though I can see where meshtastic is coming from, making every client also repeat messages, I would think a better option would be for a compromise, where meshtastic would do a 50-50 split, when you very first created the node, and it would choose a 0 or 1, and if it was set to 0, it would be client mute, and if it was set to 1, it would be a client, and therefore, re- so you'd have the best of both worlds, and if it was set to 1, it would be a client, and therefore, re-lay messages, so you'd have the best of both worlds.
2. The region scopes seem like pure gold to keep area specific chatter in that area and reduce congestion on the wider mesh outside that area. This is a feature that I absolutely think meshtastic should adopt in some way.
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Juraj5d agoI was surprised about companion nodes not repeating, but I came to understand why. I was running a repeater and the community gently told me to just turn it off. You can cover the whole city with three repeaters. There are more than three of course, but I was basically not helping anything, I was taking precious airtime.
The repeater nodes are pretty cheap and you need to really think where you put them - as high up as possible, with the best visibility. Most users given this option would be like me "I want to help the network". But I was not really helping, I was just using airtime in an area that was perfectly covered.
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