←back to thread

Start your own Internet Resiliency Club

(bowshock.nl)
579 points todsacerdoti | 2 comments | 16 Jun 25 07:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.433s | source
Show context
estsauver ◴[16 Jun 25 08:43 UTC] No.44287676[source]▶
* I would consider adding a T-1000 device to the recommended list of devices, it's about the size of a credit card and works very well to add Meshtastic to phones. https://www.seeedstudio.com/SenseCAP-Card-Tracker-T1000-E-fo... It's a lot easier (in my opinion) to get people to stash a radio and remember how to power it to Bluetooth then to get setup from 0 on a new device. I think I paid about 40 euros each when I bought a pair.

* I have a Starlink mini--in the event that there is ever a broadly disconnecting event I'd be happy to share access to it. I keep it pretty much exclusively for emergency use and occasional camping/rural holiday house vacations. You might want to consider one too? They're ~250 euros new, which for someone who's starting a club for anything seems like a plausible expense. I believe there's a chinese version in case you don't want to trust the whims and emotions of Musk. * https://kiwix.org/en/applications/ is pretty useful if you'd like to have an archive of technical information, wikipedia, stack exchange etc.

* I try and keep whatever feels like the smartest open weight LLMs at the time available so if something real bad ever happened it'd still be available. I might add that idea to your preparedness list too--I'd probably take LM Studio with Gemma 3 over another random engineer on the Meshtastic channel :)

* Would you share channel config details for your IRC community? I'm happy to join.

replies(3): >>44287717 #>>44288024 #>>44311395 #
1. MaKey ◴[16 Jun 25 08:53 UTC] No.44287717[source]▶
Regarding the T1000-E:

> Note: Currently, LR1110 radios are unable to receive Meshtastic packets from the older SX127x radios, it requires a breaking change to fix this. Transmitting works and when hopping through an SX126x radio, you can still receive packets from SX127x radios.

https://meshtastic.org/docs/hardware/devices/seeed-studio/se...

Its range is also much worse than the T-Echo's.

replies(1): >>44287885 #
2. estsauver ◴[16 Jun 25 09:28 UTC] No.44287885[source]▶
I think that's totally fair if you're primarily working in rural/not dense communities. If you're in a major city, in practice it just doesn't matter and ease of use is king. In a disaster, everyone with a meshtastic radio has it on. Your messages will propagate just fine.