Just received my first meshtastic device. Unfortunately, as I expected, I couldn’t connect to another node from home. Drove to the top of the skiing hill by my house, and was super excited to see nodes pop up. Tried DMing the closest one, but I didn’t have much time to stick around for the response. Thinking about asking the general manager of the ski resort permission to put a router on top of the mountain (if I’m wrong about the mode, let me know, but seems router would be best fit). Does anyone have recommendations for outdoor solar panel ready-to-go kits?
Router may be best for on top of that mountain as you mentioned, but instead I would put it in client mode, at least at first, and coordinate with the other people on your mesh to make sure that a router would be useful there.
You can set up remote administration so that you can change it from client to router mode remotely, if need be.