Meshtastic: A Messaging Network For The End Of The World

How would we communicate in the event of a massive cellular network outage?

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22 thoughts on “Meshtastic: A Messaging Network For The End Of The World

  1. they don’t just get more powerful when more nodes are in an area; overload is likely at some point. line-of-sight is NOT necessary. do your homework for God’s sake

  2. The more people have these, the more useful it will be for stuff like *evading techno authoritarian surveillance state,* hint hint

  3. This seems like the cheapest solution for areas like mine. I live on a mountain we have no cell service for like 8 miles[drive not as the crow flies] till the bottom of the mountain if the town could get a handful of these devices and connect them at a power pole with a solar panel to power them, we would be able to communicate with neghibors and first responders when we inevitably lose power in storms.

  4. Imagine a whole network built around signals that can be jammed with off-the-shelf walkie talkies, supported by elderly people who believe civilization will collapse, and you get this nonsense.

  5. Here’s a problem with this system, data pollution and network overloading.

    Too many connections and too much data could cause static

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