The worst case I’ve read about is BurningMan 2023, once enough people were on the mesh it completely stopped working and they had to write a special version of the app so it wouldn’t fail so badly… so it looks like there are ways to mitigate congested networks, but that is not stock. I admit I’m a complete newbie but there are some scathing comments about how poor Meshtastic is, though I’ve read others that say it’s fine for what it tries to do but not great for other purposes. So my gut tells me Reticulum would probably be a better long term protocol which you could develop a stand alone app for BBS, instead of piggybacking on Meshtastic app.
Ah! I can see problems happening if you do reach those high densities. If an app change was able to fix it somewhat, then it may have still been some configuration problem. Too many people trying to join the same mesh with sub-optimal settings. But, at some point you might indeed get just too much radio interference from different devices trying to communicate at once. Certainly possible!
I just learned about Reticulum, I still have to give it a try!
The worst case I’ve read about is BurningMan 2023, once enough people were on the mesh it completely stopped working and they had to write a special version of the app so it wouldn’t fail so badly… so it looks like there are ways to mitigate congested networks, but that is not stock. I admit I’m a complete newbie but there are some scathing comments about how poor Meshtastic is, though I’ve read others that say it’s fine for what it tries to do but not great for other purposes. So my gut tells me Reticulum would probably be a better long term protocol which you could develop a stand alone app for BBS, instead of piggybacking on Meshtastic app.
Ah! I can see problems happening if you do reach those high densities. If an app change was able to fix it somewhat, then it may have still been some configuration problem. Too many people trying to join the same mesh with sub-optimal settings. But, at some point you might indeed get just too much radio interference from different devices trying to communicate at once. Certainly possible!
I just learned about Reticulum, I still have to give it a try!