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Building the Backbone: Setting Up Your First MeshCore Repeater

Hey BuffaLoRa community! Unlike the often-discouraged repeater devices in Meshtastic, repeaters are the lifeblood of a MeshCore network. Because MeshCore companion devices don’t rebroadcast, repeaters are essential for bridging your traffic across the network. While this requires more nodes overall to build out the map, MeshCore compensates by allowing up to 64 hops between nodes,Continue reading “Building the Backbone: Setting Up Your First MeshCore Repeater”

Meshtastic vs. MeshCore:

By Ehren Reynolds aka @Sid-NY on discord Working in technology support and IT direction for over 16 years, I’ve seen countless network topologies succeed and fail. When it comes to building a resilient, off-grid communication backbone for Western New York, the challenge is unique. We need a system that can handle our notorious lake-effect weather,Continue reading “Meshtastic vs. MeshCore:”