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Seeing a lot of MeshCore discourse lately. Been running mesh for a while now: Don't be religious, use whatever works where you live. Give nodes into the hands of whoever you'd want to reach when the infrastructure goes dark. Just spend some time and money onboarding people. And hope it will be just a fun project that you'll never need.

People often build mesh networks by just adding nodes randomly. Then they wonder why throughput tanks and it does not work. MeshCore nailed it: 80% of those are airtime vampires. Swap 'em for one fat repeater (high-gain omnis, solar-powered) perched on a ridge with LOS to the valley. Rest is just pruning the mesh till it breathes.