• lepinkainen@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    They’re a mesh walkie-talkie, but you don’t need to walkie or talkie 😁

    Meshnet means that if A can see B and B can see C, then A can message C, it’s routed through B automatically.

    Also it’s text only, not enough bandwidth for speech

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        34 minutes ago

        When I think of pagers I think of receiving only, not sending. Meshtastic devices can typically do both.

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        37 minutes ago

        Kind of. But it is my understanding that pagers work with centralised transmitters/stations. I am no expert though, so maybe there is mesh-like pager protocols.

        This is decentralised, a mesh. Routing is done through the terminals themselves, rather than through a centralised transmitter.