I'm just here to cheer on a Jitsi link in the wild.
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this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2026
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For others who (like me) never heard of this before:
Jitsi is a set of open-source projects that allows you to easily build and deploy secure video conferencing solutions. At the heart of Jitsi are Jitsi Videobridge and Jitsi Meet, which let you have conferences on the internet, while other projects in the community enable other features such as audio, dial-in, recording, and simulcasting.
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How resilient is something like Meshtastic? My understanding is that anyone can configure their device poorly so that it can become overly chatty, congesting the network. Even in ideal an ideal scenario with properly configured nodes, could this actually survive if it saw more than hobbiest adoption?
I think it's really cool and i like having this idea of a backup communication system, but if has serious range limitations and is likely to be overwhelmed in a no-cell scenario is it even worth it, or is it just fun to play around with?
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I am literally building a network in my town. Love this project, so much fun and useful
Huh? Can anyone explain what all these words mean? Mesh? Ham radio? How does this work is it like toy walkie talkie?
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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Meshtastic sounds great in concept but IMO it's useless in most parts of the world due to it's extreme low power.
If all your neighbours have one or there aren't many buidings around blocking line of sight then meshtastic has great potential. Otherwise I would stuck be sending messages to myself.
Now, they made boards with more power that operated and crossed at several different frequency bands, specially shortwave, then meshtastic would be an incredibility powerful too. However illegal.
Antennas and location.
I can see one node on top of the tallest building around here and it allows me to connect to nodes 20-30km away.
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Is there a map that shows where are using them? It looks like a fun idea, but I don't want to get something and no one is using it in my region. (Outback Australia)
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Lot of complex discussions here about Ham radio operator, new hardware or protocol like Mestastic, SDR, etc so I'd start with "just" what people already have at home and only AFTER go there, if need be.
If you have WiFi Mesh at home or IoT via ZigBee or Z-Wave you already are doing mesh networking. Sure you might not have Internet access this way but the principle is already there via your existing relative affordable infrastructure.