GoTenna – Send and receive messages even when you don’t have service
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GoTenna – Send and receive messages even when you don’t have service
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Re: GoTenna – Send and receive messages even when you don’t have service
#2Great device, great idea! Please allow orders from within the EU... That would be awesome!
Re: GoTenna – Send and receive messages even when you don’t have service
#3Interesting ... does this do any kind of store and forward or relaying? Say I send a message to a friend who happens to be out of range, but there was another GoTenna user who neither of us know, but who is in range of us both, will it relay the message via this 3rd party (encrypted) or is it purely a direct connection between sender --> receiver?
Re: GoTenna – Send and receive messages even when you don’t have service
#4Oh that's pretty cool.. It's like a walky-talky but for data
Re: GoTenna – Send and receive messages even when you don’t have service
#5I slid the range slider all the way down as I'm in the, notoriously flat, Netherlands. Most of the time I'm in a city, Amsterdam, and then I'd have a range of 0 miles. Is that correct? That does not sound very useful to me then.
Can someone confirm that this is correct?
Re: GoTenna – Send and receive messages even when you don’t have service
#6I slid the range slider all the way down as I'm in the, notoriously flat, Netherlands. Most of the time I'm in a city, Amsterdam, and then I'd have a range of 0 miles. Is that correct? That does not sound very useful to me then. Can someone confirm that this is correct?
I think their slider is a bit misleading as if you have the slider at 0ft then the range is 0 but if you have it at 5ft then the range is up in the miles.
I think their point is that if you need to use this then you may need to seek slightly higher ground... or some stairs...
Re: GoTenna – Send and receive messages even when you don’t have service
#7Very cool. I hope this becomes at least a niche success and the price comes down in future versions.
Re: GoTenna – Send and receive messages even when you don’t have service
#8I love it... I wonder if there will be some kind of base station available? I'm thinking about Scout camps, where we turn up on a campsite with a few hundred kids, and often use radios to talk between important adults. The range would need to be a few miles, so WiFi is out of the question. Too expensive mind, but very very cool!
Re: GoTenna – Send and receive messages even when you don’t have service
#9I can see myself using this during my mountain/road biking trips with friends, although the form format doesn't look very practical on the back pockets of cycling jerseys.
Re: GoTenna – Send and receive messages even when you don’t have service
#10Interesting ... does this do any kind of store and forward or relaying? Say I send a message to a friend who happens to be out of range, but there was another GoTenna user who neither of us know, but who is in range of us both, will it relay the message via this 3rd party (encrypted) or is it purely a direct connection between sender --> receiver?
from the fAQs i gather that it sends from one gotenna to one or more recipient gotennas only: "Your smartphone will send the message to your goTenna, which will then shoot it out, via long-range radio waves, to the intended goTenna(s). At the other end, the exact same thing happens, in reverse: the recipient goTenna sends your message over BTLE to the smartphone app its paired with."
https://gotenna.myshopify.com/pages/faqs
building an ad-hoc network with these things would be kind of cool though. DIY city networks anyone...