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    1 day ago

    So, I setup meshtastic.

    Put an antenna on my roof.

    Have a decent number of mesh radios. Put one in each car in relay mode.

    Setup a locally run LLM and made an interface to it.

    Working on setting up a BBS.

    I’m in the high density suburbs, I can, when the weather is just right, reach a single node that doesn’t seem to be able to reach any other nodes.

    If I go on a drive, I can see 5-10 nodes.

    Adoption in the mid-Atlantic US is just so damn low, it’s not really usable.

    We need some antennas up high, but there aren’t any reasonable options around me.

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        25 minutes ago

        There are 4 in my metropolitan area, and I don’t have line of sight to any of them :(

        There are about 30 meshtastic in the same area, but most of them are out of range to each other.

        I even stood one up at work on the other side of town and mqtt’d them together.