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BTCBaggins 1 month ago
Thanks! That's kinda what I thought but was under the impression that the mesh part allowed users to cast a wider net than BT which of course will always be zero bc only a few of us care about BTC per capita. So in order to get more coverage one has to add physical mesh BT hardware?

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I think someone said that there's a limit to how many hops you can get too so, I'm not sure if it even counts as a mesh grid if it's got a hop limit.
RedTailHawk's avatar RedTailHawk
Did some #bitchat testing earlier. It worked outside with an open line of sight within a range of approximately 90 meters which is ~295 feet...not quite 1 American football field from goal line to goal line. That's clear line of sight though in open air, not living room to living room across a typical residential street through two building shells worth of mass attenuating the Bluetooth signal. I wonder if it will work between across-the-street neighbors.
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If your device (e.g. phone) has internet access, you can 'teleport' to different geohash locations. Click the top bar on the right where it has the # symbol. The characters after that are your geohash. In the #location channels you can switch to widen your radius from (BT) 'mesh' to 'block', 'neighborhood', 'city', 'province' or 'region'. Or if you know a specific location geohash, you can enter that. No extra hardware required.