I gave a quick try of meshtastic and quickly switched over to meshcore, which has a much smarter routing algorithm that makes it more useful in cities. I’m also reticulum-curious. In the medium-term I’m looking at possibly putting up a solar “roompeater,” which acts as both a “room” (basically allows asynchronous chat between two client nodes that aren’t always online at the same time) and a repeater (basically a router). It has some disadvantages over running the two separately, but since I want both to have power in the event of a disaster, the cost savings of doing both on one node outweighs those for me right now.