- Please understand — We’re not mad, not trying to be mean, and not trying to be control freaks. Meshtastic’s performance on a mesh this large is very sensitive to the role of Routers. A lot of people work very hard to locate, plan, build, and maintain the community’s Routers.
- ROUTER LATE and CLIENT BASE and CLIENT are all extremely helpful to your local area of the mesh, and will not cause the problems that using Router mode will cause. All of these device types repeat mesh traffic whenever applicable.
- If a node is marked by the community as a mis-roled Router continues to operate in Router mode after attempts to contact the owner via the mesh public chat and/or Discord, the node will be placed into the “ignore” lists of the existing Router network in an attempt to mitigate the damage to the greater mesh. This will severely limit the reach of the mis-roled Router node.
- Again – We’re not just making rules for the sake of making rules – we are just working to make sure the mesh functions as well is it can for everyone. We fully realize that nobody is intentionally setting up Routers with the intent to damage mesh performance, but our experience over the years has been that the issue doesn’t fix itself very often and action must be taken.
- Education is essential to making the mesh function as well as it can. We’re all learning this together!
If you think you may have a node or location that is suitable to participate in MSP Mesh infrastructure, check a generated coverage map and have fellow MSP Meshers review your findings before converting to a Router/Repeater.