Comment by 🚀 lars_the_bear
Re: "Just stumbled into the Reticulum / Nomadnet project…"
Congestion isn't a problem in my neighbourhood (rural Hertfordshire) -- there's just no interest in this kind of technology, so far as I can see. On a good day I can reach one or two MeshCore nodes; nothing on Meshtastic at all. I'd be willing to put up a repeater, if I thought anybody could reach it. Shame, because it's a fascinating technology.
Feb 23 · 2 months ago
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I've set up a Raspberry Pi with Reticulum that connects to several Internet nodes. The speeds are low, but it actually gets quite a bit of online traffic. The only parts of Reticulum I still struggle with are how to manage identities and integrate connections into other applications.
Unfortunately, I also have no nearby peers to connect to via radio; I live in a rural area, and many people don't bother with technology beyond a stock smartphone and the occasional Netflix subscription.
👻 darkghost · Feb 23 at 19:57:
I'm barely on a Meshtastic network to a wider area thanks to an unlisted repeater. Reticulum is out of the question here in the sticks.
❤️ fairlygood · Feb 23 at 21:27:
I not looked into other LoRA networks, but I do have a MeshCore repeater running. It’s fun, but limited use. I can chat on it, and.. well that’s it. I’d like to see someone do something useful with it.
❤️ fairlygood · Feb 23 at 21:29:
@lars_the_bear you’d be surprised at how much difference just one repeater at reasonably high ground can make.
🚀 ColonelThirtyTwo · Feb 23 at 23:33:
I recently got into meshtastic, so this is interesting to see.
🍀 gritty [OP] · Feb 23 at 23:52:
to be honest I was just interested in browsing the "pages" on the different nodes. seems the radio side of this struggles.
Yeah lack of local nodes makes it difficult for me to do much of anything on meshtastic or meshcore
🚀 lars_the_bear · Feb 24 at 15:43:
@fairlygoodthanks : sure. On the rare occasions I can reach the cluster of activity in NW London, I can get good coverage. But I don't have the money or the time to put up my own repeater, in the hope that somebody else witin range will join me one day. I guess that's the problem we all have, out in the sticks.
my understanding is that reticulums strength is not that it runs over LoRa, but that it can transport data across any low-throughput medium (LoRa, bluetooth, wifi, packet radio in theory) very efficiently with low bandwidth & power requirements.
design-wise, the idea is that you can reach someone regardless of how they are connected, that it can store and forward later if your recipient is disconnected, and that the protocol enforces real E2E encryption.
since the protocols (reticulum + lxmf) are so generic, a lot can be built on top of them (like nomadnet)
i run a nomadnet node. there isn't much on it right now...
Original Post
Just stumbled into the Reticulum / Nomadnet project tonight. I'm still bumbling my way around but it seems interesting and very gemini-esque, especially with the terminal interface of Nomadnet. I see there's a gemini proxy as well.