i left it on the default LongFast for now, but must admit, i have no idea what local networks might be using.

Medium Fast in

Medium Fast in some parts of ?

@finn

Maybe there is more MeshCore but I haven't played around with that because my 2nd device Cardputer Mesh died after 2 weeks.

Medium or short range?

From the train, I may have detected a handful of nodes. Not more. Never being able to send to the public channel. I guess the train blocks most of the signal and there aren't many nodes running.

Outside of trains, I've had perfect network in Graz, a bit in Vienna and almost nothing at the rest of my tour.

this place here might be the right one, to initiate this -
pls CC people, feed into your non-fediverse networks, lists etc

ps.
(i know there s #meshtastic groups and things over on the old corp networks, but i ve never understood how you could organize autonomy on #META ...)

more tags for reach: if
#meshcore #lora #mesh #freifunk #CCC #community #network #activist #bornhack #solarpunk
u might b interested

I would similarly love to reach people in know in Germany, Poland, Netherlands etc. I am up for start planning these deployments soon-ish (start next year or so if we should collect a group for this.

Once in a while I am in Amsterdam, and perhaps moving their for my PhD exchange in early 2028 so I could potentially drive between to do maintenance

I am talking to people in Malmö to do cross-border reticulum perhaps through directional wifi antennas as well as sprinkle it with some local governance (since this part is not that clear in reticulum as in meshcore+meshtastic), but also sounds interesting to do this for other protocols. For longer distance communication it would also be interesting for us to send packets through HAM radio frequencies through the ionosphere (should reach thousands of kilometers) when we all got our licenses. Perhaps there is a way, if we can fund and setup repeaters, to make them useful for multiple of the protocols

If this is done via mqtt, can be disabled in device. If via lora radio, primary 0 channel is special, available for all, and only migration to/communication on channels 1-7 can help. Also with private keys for these channels. Channel 0 has own key, known by all. Can be changed too, but then its not default anymore.

@sebastian @Szescstopni @becha @douwe @marleenstikker @battlemesh

I agree the local is more important.
But the Cross-Border could be a nice demonstrator.
Plus I m in Denmark but have family in Germany;)

it would certainly be interesting to see if we could establish a backbone of long distance routers/repeaters, placed in good places to close the gaps.
there s no reason why a single hop can not go 100, 200 km ... so a handful of hops would do Poland - Germany, Germany-Denmark, and so on ...

CC @m0bi

almost passed by your place i guess

and as Elektra in Berlin and me have been talking about -

working on making cross-border pan-european mesh connections.
how many hops from Copenhagen to Berlin, Amsterdam, Warszawa ... ?

Cc @vaurora @douwe @marleenstikker et.al

https://bowshock.nl/irc/

Would be good to exchange experiences with Denmark & Poland too !

Cc @battlemesh

exactly.
so far, no village stores here to use it.
villagers use META, M$ and Google to talk to their neighbors

LoRa travelling is a thing!

i see quite a lot of nodes from the train.
my main observation is - most people see meshtastic as an infrastructure project. there s mainly roof installations and the likes. Routers, repeaters.

But noone is *using* it for talking