Very cool. This never crossed my mind. Im going to throw my node in the back seat next time i fly. I guess if it works for a passenger on an airline, it will definately work on my little 4 seater piper right? I just always assumed that a plane is just an airborn faraday cage and it wouldnt work tbh…

Thanks for the quick response.

Im happy that uptime seems to be as good as you say, and not having to worry about excessive traffic for the future is nice.

I will have highest access point for my area from my grain bin elevator and it looks so far like im alone in this experiment here. I can also get access to another high location or two. Its definitely enough to “paint the town” so to speak. Nothing else even remotely close in the area according to meshmap.net so ive got a nice sandbox to play with all by my lonesome. Small town perks i guess.

Ill do some small scale playing around before i start climbing or aquiring more hardware, but this looks like fun. When i am satisfied on doing low elevation tests, ill definitely be interested in best hardware for a router, but i can take this step by step for now and be happy with learning. It helps that this all seems, at least at first glance, to be fairly straight forward so far as hardware requirements.

Im just getting into all this. If i put up a router on a tower, realistically how much traffic can it handle? And how stable is it? If ive got to climb once a week to reset it… thats a bit of a turn off. Like i said, im brand new. But i have location, expendable funds, and curiosity.