New LoRa RF distance record: 1336 km / 830 mi

Re:New LoRa RF distance record: 1336 km / 830 mi by johanstokking on Thursday September 07, 2023 @05:16AM (#37416498)

This is not entirely accurate. LoRa is a patented RF technology owned by Semtech. LoRaWAN is a standard maintained by the LoRa Alliance (which is not very different from other standards and marketing bodies). The Things Network (founded by @wienke and myself) is a developer community around LoRaWAN and a free to use cloud service intended for R&D and non-commercial use cases.

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Re:New LoRa RF distance record: 1336 km / 830 mi by jacquesm on Thursday September 07, 2023 @05:22AM (#37416533)

Yes, so GP is essentially correct.

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Re:New LoRa RF distance record: 1336 km / 830 mi by goodpoint on Thursday September 07, 2023 @05:29AM (#37416573)

Please don't astroturf a corporate driven "developer community"

> marketing bodies

There you go.

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Re:New LoRa RF distance record: 1336 km / 830 mi by wienke on Thursday September 07, 2023 @09:03AM (#37418309)

What is astroturf? If I Google it I see fake grass.

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Re:New LoRa RF distance record: 1336 km / 830 mi by avidiax on Thursday September 07, 2023 @09:28AM (#37418611)

A "grassroots" initiative comes from the people. "Astroturf" is commercial or political interests that masquerade as grassroots.

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