@adingbatponder @Anarcat @lvl3k
to me lora is great for one thing and one thing only: it's low power usage.
so those hybrid-media networks will maybe work fine, but question comes back when energy is down due to power blackout or other events: while we have experience with keeping lora nodes alive on little solar power and battery, what happens when the rest of the infrastructure is not available anymore?
we'd have to extend the robustness and frugality of lora-only nodes to some lora-wifi at least, and some gateway nodes maybe..?
@adingbatponder @Anarcat @lvl3k
Also there I think reticulum is a step in the right direction: It is literlay designed to use multiple radios with different settings (talking LoRa-only). So you can have a (more) local network designed for shorter range and less airtime and have one machine ("hub") that, in addition, has an interface to bridge larger distances to another hub which services the local network. The local traffic stays local and the long distance traffic can also be serviced.