"Instead those hops will get eaten up taking non-super highway routes."
#Priority Routers in hop chain to save hops over distance.
brazen sierra
Where did you learn this?
Iirc, If configured properly, routers don't have as much delay when repeating packets as clients do.
tacit basin
I totally get the current client vs router thing, I get theory, I get all of that.
But then try to build your own network while still trying to find/bring in new users to grow the network.
"IF" you keep LongFast you're no longer in a vacuum and you can't control it but then you lose half of the power of Meshtastic if you don't keep it.
Channels could probably even solve it, but as long as you have LongFast and you try to send a message over a custom channel that message is still going to hop over anyone's nodes with LongFast
Someone sets up their own little mesh network and you expand "your" network far enough to where now you're hitting theirs and you both run LongFast.
That new network is now part of yours when it comes to hops and you have no control over how they set things up. In fact according to some out there on YouTube EVERYONE should set every node to client.
brazen sierra
Yea, sorry about that. We had that issue here a few months ago; 8 routers in the flatlands eating up channel utilization for no reason. after getting them to configure their nodes correctly, channel utilization dropped from ~40% to ~2% without losing contact with anyone. No mountains or FAA notifications for meshtastic towers here, so no need for router/repeater.
Hopefully you can solve the issues you've been having. Someone smarter than me will surely have better input 😉
stark jetty
Routers always rebroadcast, they are noisy… but also, the lowst snr has the highest pri for rebroadcasting already, all but ensuring max range
Router doesnt provide any better range than client
Client provides an advantage in that it wont rebroadcast if it was in range of another client that sent a rebroadcast. Keeping in mind the rule that lowest snr has highest pri to rebroadcast
Too many routers can cause interference or congestion when it comes to decoding packets on the fringes of reception