Juraj20h agoI was surprised about companion nodes not repeating, but I came to understand why. I was running a repeater and the community gently told me to just turn it off. You can cover the whole city with three repeaters. There are more than three of course, but I was basically not helping anything, I was taking precious airtime.
The repeater nodes are pretty cheap and you need to really think where you put them - as high up as possible, with the best visibility. Most users given this option would be like me "I want to help the network". But I was not really helping, I was just using airtime in an area that was perfectly covered.
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shortwavesurfer200914h agoI'm assuming that was on mesh core because on meshtastic they definitely say you should not use router mode or repeater mode unless you have access to an extremely high tower or a mountaintop. I always tell people that you shouldn't run a router unless you are at least 100 feet above the ground and even then you should probably talk with the community in your area to make sure that it would make sense.
100 feet or above should be router if it makes sense. Anything less than 100 feet but above 20 feet should be client and anything below 20 feet should be client mute because they're not going to get you very much more range. And so it's kind of pointless to have them be repeating messages at all.
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