russ on Nostr: I accidentally replied to your linked note and not here. No, Meshtastic isn't the ...
I accidentally replied to your linked note and not here.
No, Meshtastic isn't the hardware.
Both these things are more or less at the same level within the stack, but have different goals, and Reticulum will work on the same kind of low power LoRa hardware as Meshtastic, but Reticulum can also can use other network bearers like WIFI, Ethernet, etc.
Here's an interesting brief write up (not mine) that does a comparison.
https://blog.erethon.com/blog/2024/01/31/comparing-reticulum-and-meshtastic/
No, Meshtastic isn't the hardware.
Both these things are more or less at the same level within the stack, but have different goals, and Reticulum will work on the same kind of low power LoRa hardware as Meshtastic, but Reticulum can also can use other network bearers like WIFI, Ethernet, etc.
Here's an interesting brief write up (not mine) that does a comparison.
https://blog.erethon.com/blog/2024/01/31/comparing-reticulum-and-meshtastic/