If you’ve spent any time on the New Hampshire mesh, you’ve probably noticed that the health of our network depends far more on how everyone configures their nodes than on how many nodes we have. A handful of well-placed, thoughtfully configured radios will always beat a crowd of aggressive, misconfigured ones. This guide walks through…

If you’ve spent any time running Meshtastic in a busy metro area, you’ve probably hit the wall: the 7-hop limit. In a dense deployment, or when you switch to a faster preset like SHORT_FAST or SHORT_TURBO, those hops get eaten alive before your message ever reaches a friend across town. Every relay ticks the counter…