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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.

Da FUCK?!?!

The Rak WisMesh Tag is what you want then

Under LoRa settings turn off rx boosted gain and you will save some serious battery. It took my t1000e from 2 days 20h max to 3d 5hr max. Tjat one setting extended the battery by 9 hours.

The thing with the tag dying at 44% means the ADC override in power settings is too high. I think the default ADC is like 4.9.

Edit: my previous post about ADC multiplier override https://lemmy.zip/post/48972536

Still needs to climb. Currently, about one in a million of the global population will have one.

Just letting you know, if open source is something you care about, the mesh core apps for mobile devices are not open source.

Until that changes, I won’t touch it because I won’t start using a proprietary service on my device.

I will say the reviews of the mesh pocket that I have seen say that it is not a good node if you are an outdoors construction worker type person. If you’re going to be rough on your equipment, that is not the device for you because of that big glass screen and everything.

The review I saw was like if you’re an office worker that’s going to put this in your bag and use it to charge your phone or set it on your desk or whatever during the day, that’s fine. But if you’re going to be out and about and you’re rough on your equipment, then you should not buy it.

Passing your T1000E onto a neighbor once you are done with it is an absolutely fantastic idea. They get a cheap node to play with and you get an upgrade.

As I said, my reason for going with the mesh pocket is that I live in an area where we do get tropical storms, which could knock out power for quite an extended amount of time.

I also have one of those 25W fold out solar panels that recharge USB devices so that even if it did die, I could just set that solar panel out and let it charge back up.

And that’s not even to mention that if my phone is communicating with my meshtastic node that’s 30 feet away, it’s gonna have to use much less power to communicate with that than to communicate with the cell phone tower five miles away that happens to still be running while the other ones aren’t, etc.

Your phone uses more power when the signal is weak because it has to boost the incoming signal to be able to hear it and it has to transmit with more power to be able to get to the further away tower.

You chose a good node for your first one. I got mine back in January and just sold it recently to a guy who did not have one and bought a Helltec MeshPocket for the extra battery life.

The T1000E lasted me about three days if I had location turned off or manually set and had Sx126x RX boosted gain turned off.

I haven’t gotten the chance to really put the mesh pocket through its paces, but so far I’ve seen a minimum of 10 days worth of battery life, which I appreciate since I live in tropical storm areas

Well, when there’s a fully open source app, I will give it another look. But until that point, I’m not touching it again.