shortwavesurfer2009 on Nostr: This would still be an asshole thing to do, but on the new 4th generation LORA chips ...

This would still be an asshole thing to do, but on the new 4th generation LORA chips like the LR2021, you can get up to double the speed of the previous generation 2 and generation 3, such as the SX1262 or LR1110.

Mind you, the clients will be able to update pretty freely, but the repeater infrastructure is going to take quite a while to update because repeaters don't need to be touched very often. So that's going to be the major bottleneck.

And if a repeater in one place gets updated to the newer Generation 4 chips, then instead of getting rid of that old repeater, they're likely to put it up somewhere else to fill in coverage gaps, etc. So, for a long while, we're going to be capped at Generation 2 speeds.