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1 Comment

  1. Meshtastic is too early in development to be much good in my opinion.

    Did MESHTASTIC Die At Hamvention??

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4k0AUnMvwo&t=2s

    I read an overview of the technology and Meshtastic doesn’t really have the thruput and the suggestion from the video was to take Meshtastic off of the internet. This is why I wish Adafruit would get involved to improve the firmware and thruput of the device. This device just doesn’t have the bandwidth to handle emergencies. If everyone got on their Meshtastic devices, it wouldn’t be usable.

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