Oh nice, somebody in my local area just ordered the rak Wismesh repeater and is going to put it up in a week or so, so that will be even more coverage in my area.
You should see what they’ve built out in the bay. Routers on all of the surrounding mountains. Its beautiful. I sent a message that went out to yuba city all the way down to San Luis Obispo last night
Yeah, this one that was just ordered by some person is going to probably be a client base or client because we already have a router that serves the area decently well.
Out of curiosity, how would it mess up routing if he favorites a router? Because if I’m understanding the way client base works and the way the new routing protocol works, if he favorites a router, then his node would just re-broadcast that same packet without decrementing the hop. Unless I’m missing something.
It’s designed to help weak/mobile/indoor nodes in poor radio locations, not routers. When you favorite routers or other strong nodes, your CLIENT_BASE aggressively rebroadcasts their traffic (acting as ROUTER), which can actually suppress better routing paths and add unnecessary congestion.
The feature works best when you favorite only your personal handheld/EDC devices that need the boost from your strong base station. Favoriting already-strong infrastructure nodes defeats the purpose and can negatively impact overall mesh connectivity.
This is entirely dependent on your mesh topology of course. In our larger mesh with a lot of routers in advantageous locations, a client base favoriting a router would do more harm than good
Thanks for the rec! Yeah I have a sensecap solar on my roof in client base, was very impressed with the range I got on my walk today.
I have a rokland 5.8DBI fiberglass coming in the mail tomorrow I think, so I can hopefully get away with an internal
Oh nice, somebody in my local area just ordered the rak Wismesh repeater and is going to put it up in a week or so, so that will be even more coverage in my area.
You should see what they’ve built out in the bay. Routers on all of the surrounding mountains. Its beautiful. I sent a message that went out to yuba city all the way down to San Luis Obispo last night
Yeah, this one that was just ordered by some person is going to probably be a client base or client because we already have a router that serves the area decently well.
If he sets it to client base tell him to be careful with his favorites! Can mess up routing if he favorites a router
Out of curiosity, how would it mess up routing if he favorites a router? Because if I’m understanding the way client base works and the way the new routing protocol works, if he favorites a router, then his node would just re-broadcast that same packet without decrementing the hop. Unless I’m missing something.
It’s designed to help weak/mobile/indoor nodes in poor radio locations, not routers. When you favorite routers or other strong nodes, your CLIENT_BASE aggressively rebroadcasts their traffic (acting as ROUTER), which can actually suppress better routing paths and add unnecessary congestion. The feature works best when you favorite only your personal handheld/EDC devices that need the boost from your strong base station. Favoriting already-strong infrastructure nodes defeats the purpose and can negatively impact overall mesh connectivity.
This is entirely dependent on your mesh topology of course. In our larger mesh with a lot of routers in advantageous locations, a client base favoriting a router would do more harm than good
Doh. Now that you pointed out, that makes total sense. And I’m not sure why it didn’t occur to me earlier. But thanks.