shortwavesurfer

It appears as though cloaked wireless might be a better deal.

Phreeli offers #25/mo for unlimited talk and text with zero gigs of data per month. They give you a free 2GB at signup, but once you are done with that, you have to pay $20 for 5GB. That $25 does include government extortion and fees.

Cloped wireless also offers a $25 per month plan, but does not include extortion and fees in the price, so it would be more like $32. They give you unlimited talk and text with 500 megabytes of high-speed data and unlimited low-speed data after that.

You can pay both of them with Monero, which is why I'm definitely going to switch, but so far, I think I'm going to be going with cloaked wireless instead. Because they offer a lot of the same guarantees, but for a lower price (after data is added to phreeli)

I have a similar issue here. When our local router went down and then came back up, it was not as good at hearing as it used to be. So while I used to be able to get messages out reliably, I can no longer. So what I'm doing instead is I'm getting a treetop solar node and putting it up in my front yard.

I can hear just fine, but my transmissions only occasionally get acknowledged due to the more deaf router.

I can tell you for a fact that a 10 DBI antenna is far too high gain for a normal day-to-day node. You want a 3 DBI, or 5 at the absolute maximum.

With high gain, you get a good distance out of your antenna at the sacrifice of not being able to hear notes above and below you.

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Doh. Now that you pointed out, that makes total sense. And I'm not sure why it didn't occur to me earlier. But thanks.

Out of curiosity, how would it mess up routing if he favorites a router? Because if I'm understanding the way client base works and the way the new routing protocol works, if he favorites a router, then his node would just re-broadcast that same packet without decrementing the hop. Unless I'm missing something.

Yeah, this one that was just ordered by some person is going to probably be a client base or client because we already have a router that serves the area decently well.

Don't listen to this guy. Spend as much money as you damn well please. And go down the rabbit hole so deep you think you'll never find your way back out. Lol

Oh nice, somebody in my local area just ordered the rak Wismesh repeater and is going to put it up in a week or so, so that will be even more coverage in my area.

For situations like this, I like to use devices with internal built-in antennas such as the Heltec MeshPocket, Seeed T1000-E, or RAK WisMesh Tag.

But all those devices are best used with a local repeater.

I use the official app. It's still not great on Android, but it works well enough.