Subj : Internet transit alternatives
To   : August Abolins
From : Kostie Muirhead
Date : Tue Jun 01 2021 06:31 am

  Re: Internet transit alternatives
  By: August Abolins to Kostie Muirhead on Sun May 16 2021 02:12 pm

 AA> Now you've done it. This started me into a rabbit hole of LoRa 
 AA> vs LoRaWAN, TTN, etc..

Haha, yup. It is a rabbit hole, and most material you'll find is very much 
geared towards IOT implementations without much base level information made 
available for easy digestion. 

 AA> When you say "NOT LoRaWan" are you referring to the entities 
 AA> that have commercialized it?

No, LoRaWan refers to using a gateway to pass information from/to nodes and a 
network attached service. It's highly reliant on the presence of an IP network 
and is really meant to allow for remote sensors/switches to interact with a 
centralized server.

LoRa itself refers to the equipment and modulation and can be used directly for 
peer to peer links in a manner very analogous to the acoustic modems of the 
past, or TNCs in the Ham Packet sphere.

While I can see some potential use cases for LoRaWan implementations to be used 
in the hobby:

1) Providing peer to peer access to local services NOT just
available on the internet is more likely to attract the tinker/electronic 
hobbyist crowd. IMHO at least.

2) Relying on the internet is not a good way to seed services that are meant to 
be an alternative to aspects of it (once again, imho).
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