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This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service (www.howtogeek.com)
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[โ€“] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"WiFi goes down"

Or more to the point, the ISP fails. A Wi-Fi router isn't that much more difficult to power than a meshtastic node, but my old ISP, I don't think they even bothered to install UPSes, if the power was out, so was the internet. I could keep my Wi-Fi up indefinitely, but it's basically useless outside my house.

[โ€“] MangoCats@feddit.it 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, whenever I tell the kids "WiFi is down" what that really means is "Comcast has killed our link, again."