Qaul – Internet Independent Wireless Mesh Communication App

Re:Qaul – Internet Independent Wireless Mesh Communication App by rsolva on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @05:29PM (#37921864)

How does this compare to Briar? It doesn't seem to support creating a mesh via bluetooth?

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Re:Qaul – Internet Independent Wireless Mesh Communication App by c_o_n_v_e_x on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @06:33PM (#37922495)

This uses WiFi which really limits the utility. Poor choice of physical layer imo.

LoRa, WiFi HaLow, or an 802.15.4 based tech would be much better choices depending on range vs bandwidth.

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Re:Qaul – Internet Independent Wireless Mesh Communication App by wkat4242 on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @07:39PM (#37923003)

Yeah but what phone has a radio that can handle those?

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Re:Qaul – Internet Independent Wireless Mesh Communication App by smeej on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @07:40PM (#37923015)

This would have been useful in, say, a college dorm with one WiFi network for the building.

I'm old enough that our dorms didn't have WiFi, but I do remember being pleasantly surprised I could listen to anyone's iTunes library over the LAN!

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Re:Qaul – Internet Independent Wireless Mesh Communication App by Scoundreller on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @03:00AM (#37925605)

Listen to? I think I ripped other people’s iTunes library with… was it mythnes?

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Re:Qaul – Internet Independent Wireless Mesh Communication App by c_o_n_v_e_x on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @07:07PM (#37936023)

We used DC++ in the mid-2000's

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Re:Qaul – Internet Independent Wireless Mesh Communication App by lxgr on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @11:03PM (#37924413)

Do you mean it's unsuitable because of the frequency?

Bluetooth LE has a "long range" mode that seemed to have been available on some iOS/iPhone versions (by accident?) for a while [1], and the range on that seems to be vastly better (i.e. on the order of hundreds of meters) than most 802.15.4 implementations I'm familiar with, and they both use the same frequency band.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/665542

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