Everyday use shaped the links and software behind ciXnet.
Making access familiar
NomadNet gave our early network a purpose beyond messaging. Its text-based interface appealed to us as engineers and enthusiasts, but getting our users comfortable with it was harder.
We wanted people to use the network every day. Looking something up or checking a page needed to become ordinary. If every visit felt like a technical excursion or a resilience exercise, people would return to their usual tools.
That shaped NomadPL and our clients. Most of our users now access the NomadPL network in Chrome through our browser bridge. Compression helps keep the pages small, and in our use the additional latency has been minimal.
Moving the backbone to HaLow
As use increased, LoRa links between nodes became a bottleneck. A few users active together could fill the available airtime, causing traffic to back up and connections to become choppy.
Wi-Fi HaLow removed that bottleneck in our installations, with comparable—and on some links better—range. We still use LoRa for inexpensive last-mile connections.
Hardware & installations →