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Re:Meshtastic by snickerer on Sunday November 30, 2025 @05:06AM (#46095380)
Meshtastic: Text message mesh network using LoRa modems.

Reticulum: full network stack (alternative to IP), mesh, focus on low-speed, unreliable connections. Transport layer agnostic. Current 'Hardware drivers' are written for LoRa, Internet Tunnels, Wifi, Amateur radio.

Reticulum sounds great? It is, but still has 2 problems: 1. The only complete & stable implementation is written in Python and 2. The existing end-user applications have confusing and complex UIs (except for the command-line tools for remote shell and file copy).

Re:Meshtastic by nunobrito on Sunday November 30, 2025 @06:08AM (#46095688)
Exactly my thoughts. Reticulum feels like an eternal "one day will be great" project but we keep waiting and waiting.
Re:Meshtastic by anthk on Sunday November 30, 2025 @07:40AM (#46096180)
Reticulum and Nomadnet should have been rewritten in Golang long ago.
Re:Meshtastic by gpm on Sunday November 30, 2025 @11:08AM (#46097787)
I'm curious, what issues is python causing them?
Re:Meshtastic by anthk on Sunday November 30, 2025 @11:33AM (#46098040)
Slow speed and CPU hogs on legacy machines such as ATOM n270 netbooks.
Re:Meshtastic by sandos on Sunday November 30, 2025 @01:13PM (#46098971)
After playing with meshtastic and seeing some packet-loss stats for LoRa in general, I would never even try reticulum. Sounds very, very painful.