I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)
by Panda_ on 5/27/2026, 7:52:49 PM
https://www.jonaharagon.com/posts/im-getting-into-mesh-networks-meshtastic-meshcore-and-reticulum/
Comments
by: ericrosedev
After seeing the Gemini, Gophers, and Fingers post today <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48297467">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48297467</a> I wonder if they would pair well with Reticulum
5/28/2026, 12:04:58 AM
by: raffael_de
This has been on here a couple of times the past few days or weeks. Finally pulled the trigger and bought a Seeed Studio Wio Tracker L1 Pro for MeshCore. I find the idea of a para-internet just fast enough for text based monomedia content highly appealing. Probably a mix of nostalgia but also realism - my thinking is that a network too slow for pictures / audio / video would elegantly avoid problems like spam and (illegal) pornography by design.
5/27/2026, 11:15:59 PM
by: Groxx
><i>To be perfectly upfront with you, this post will be glossing over many Meshtastic and MeshCore features, because I feel they are both non-serious solutions compared to Reticulum for reasons I will explain later on in this post.</i><p>Yeah, that's the general feel I get every time I poke into Mesh*. Neat radio tech, fun toy to find other nearby nerds, instantly-obvious problems that are fatal to growing beyond being that toy (or small specialized personal nets, where it's totally fine). They feel more like a tech demo than anything actually intended to survive.<p>Which is fine, you kinda need that to start out, and they do work today. Just... hard to get excited about.
5/27/2026, 10:41:13 PM
by: Panda_
Saw this at <a href="https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/im-getting-into-mesh-networks-meshtastic-meshcore-and-reticulum/34963" rel="nofollow">https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/im-getting-into-mesh-net...</a> and thought it was interesting
5/27/2026, 7:52:49 PM
by: jauntywundrkind
In general I'm happy the longer range options are about, but I'd much rather see IP based ad-hoc communication. Wifi 802.11ah "halow" is such a more versatile structure than these limited networks.<p>More of everything, of course! But I'm far more interested in making the wifi we have more ad-hoc capable, more useful anywhere any time, for whatever, especially on the longer range bands like 900MHz.
5/27/2026, 11:08:49 PM