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Re:Qaul – Internet Independent Wireless Mesh Communication App by esafak on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @10:33PM (#37924261)
This appears to intended to enable activists to organize protests with just their phones when the centralized telecommunication infrastructure is disrupted by the government. It is a different use case.
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Re:Qaul – Internet Independent Wireless Mesh Communication App by ajsnigrutin on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @07:34AM (#37927262)
You'll never get a critical mass of nerds to make such a short-range mesh viable.

On the other hand, a $20 meshtastic node somewhere up a highrise can cover half the city

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Re:Qaul – Internet Independent Wireless Mesh Communication App by sunshine-o on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @10:06AM (#37928888)
Interesting but what kind of load could it take ?

From what I remember the data rate with LoRa is very low...

In this case how many user could chat simultaneously? 10s, 100s, 1000s, more?

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Re:Qaul – Internet Independent Wireless Mesh Communication App by bnpxft on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @10:53AM (#37929557)
The Meshtastic site says that supports up to 80 device nodes depending on settings used.

It is more geared towards a group of trusted people communicated with each other than a general purpose network anyone can use.

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