If you dont use the default LongFast meshtastic is really empty. I switched my node to MediumSlow, since it’s like 86% faster than LongFast. I knew there would not be any in my area, so I subscribed to the msh/US MQTT topic and theres still nobody else. I’m going to leave it like that for a while and see if I hear anything during any kind of band openings or catch any other MQTT nodes trying out that topic. And yes, both uplink and downlink are enabled. I do know that there are some nodes in the Bay Area on msh/US/mqtt-bayme-sh, but I am not near their.
In urban areas, long fast is definitely going to get congested quite quickly.
maybe, in the future, if meshtastic takes off/just doesn’t die out. But if you’re complaining about the community being too small then clearly your area isn’t at that point yet, right?
My city is still not maxing out LongFast even with the very robust local infrastructure
What is the average channel utilization on your local routers? From what I understand, once it starts to get above 30%, you start to get dropped packets and stuff like that. The routers here report every 12 hours, so I go in and check the last week view and average out the channel utilization over all the reports from the last week.
idk what you’re using for last week view but it seems to be around 20% for big router nodes in the heart of the city here atm
To get the last week view, tap the router short name, tap more details, and then tap device metrics log, then tap 1w. It will give you the device metrics for the past week and then you can add all the channel utilization numbers together and divide by the number of reports you have. As I mentioned before, the routers in my area report every 12 hours and so over a week there are 14 logs so I have to add all the channel utilization numbers up and then divide by 14.
on the mobile app? I don’t have that
Oh, I see. I definitely don’t know how to do it from the web interface.