@w8emv@mastodon.radio Depending on terrain, a handful of fixed infrastructure nodes can be really helpful in making the mesh usable until it can reach critical mass. It's been cool watching our Austin mesh develop from a dozen people messaging "ack?" to fairly robust coverage through most of the city over the past year.
@brad The ARROW ham radio club is talking about putting a Meshtastic node up on one of its repeater sites, which would give us coverage to the south side of Ann Arbor. We do have a few trees here to get in the way.