White Papers

The White Papers were co-developed by Discord users submarine_man (you may be wondering why that is my user name, but I built a two-man submarine as one of my first jobs after graduating from UCLA Engineering), nerdherder and white_lightning (also UCLA Engineering Graduates and fellow aerospace engineers).

A message from submarine_man:

These White Papers cover the various settings for repeater and companion nodes. We have used a simple easily determined value (How many >0 SNR Neighbors does a repeater have) to choose the various settings. We chose this because of the simplicity, that it can be applied to many of the settable parameters in a repeater, but also that this could be relatively easily automated in a future release of the MeshCore firmware (the data already exists in the Neighbor Table of a repeater). I freely admit that I am a newbie to MeshCore (started last October). I was first curious why I could send DMs over 120 miles away, but I could not send one a few miles away. I was curious why the hop count to my destination changed on every message. So, I download the MeshCore firmware source code and started digging. This is what resulted.... There may be things I am unaware of, but this is my current understanding. I welcome comment and suggestions to improve my understanding...