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LEARNING PATH

MeshCore congestion lab

Learn airtime, routing, link budgets, hidden nodes and congestion by diagnosing a real mesh network.

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Estimated time180 min
Steps4

Path

Step 1reasoning

Build a link budget

Estimate path loss, antenna gain, power and receiver sensitivity before looking at the observed route.

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Step 2diagnostics

Find congestion evidence

Use network health and recommendations to distinguish coverage problems from airtime congestion.

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Step 3experiment

Test a topology change

Predict whether moving or adding a relay helps before changing anything; compare after the change.

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Step 4reasoning

Reason about capacity

Explain why adding nodes can make a mesh worse and identify the limiting resource.

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