Battle of the mesh

This title takes its name from this yearly convention¹, dedicated to mesh network protocols performances. This list centralizes informations and news about digital mesh networks.

Note: The term Battle could imply an open competition between all projects listed here. It is not the objective, even though they seem similar, their respective features and singularities make them complementary, and regarding use cases, clearly different.

Articles

• 2026, EN, Link, Liyan Gong , MeshCore Repeater Hardware Recommendation and Build Guide 2026.
• 2026, EN, Link, Bryan Cockfield, Meshtastic Does More Than Simple Communication.
• 2026, EN, Link, Danny Davis , MeshCore vs Meshtastic A Practical Comparison.
• 2025, EN, Lien, Josh, MeshCore vs Meshtastic Comparison.
• 2025, EN, Link, Donald Papp, Lessons Learned After Trying MeshCore For Off-grid Text Messaging.
• 2025, EN, Link, Tom Nardi, Meshtastic: A Tale Of Two Cities.
• 2025, EN, Link, Meshtastic Team, ...That one time at DEF CON!.
• 2025, EN, Link, Henri Bergius, Off-grid Boat Communications with Meshtastic.
• 2025, EN, Link, @nullagent@partyon.xyz, Mastodon discussion about Meshtastic and privacy.
• 2025, EN, Link, Austin Mesh, Meshtastic vs. MeshCore on Austin Mesh .
• 2024, EN, Link, Linux in a bit, The Reticulum Network and How it Works.

Meshcore

• Link Meshcore project documentation.
• Link International map of Meshcore.
• Link French map of Meshcore.
• Link Meshcore open source software initiatives.

Meshtastic

• Link Documentation de Meshtastic.
• Link International map of Meshtastic.
• Link French map of Meshtastic.
• Link Meshtastic open source software initiatives.

Reticulum

• Link Messaging application Nomadnet.
• Link Messaging application Reticulum-meshchat.
• Link Messaging application Columba.
• PDF Manual de Reticulum.
• Link International map of Reticulum.