anyone made an Internet gateway so that an accessible peer with Internet access could help route traffic?
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The nodes have built in support to send meshtastic messages on to the internet via MQTT, and that bridge is bidirectional. You could send a message like "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: ddg.gg\r\n\r\n" and have an MQTT listener fetch it and give you the reply.
It's go at a few KB/s with significant latency, and I think each packet is <300 bytes (as compared to Ethernet's 1500 bytes). So I doubt you'd enjoy that, especially with modern websites. Similar things could be done with other protocols.
I'm not sure if someone has built any of this or how reliable it is. Probably, because why not, right? But I haven't come across any such projects.
my interest is in Bitcoin and nostr note protocols and use cases, which have limited network traffic needs (except for nostr media which is not important -- memes can load slow)
Looks like there is a bridge to nostr (see below) and I've heard about someone doing a BTC transaction over LoRa (not sure if it was meshtastic), but I haven't seen the code. It should be reasonably straight forward to whip up though.
Were you thinking about Nutband nostr:npub16v82nr4xt62nlydtj0mtxr49r6enc5r0sl2f7cq2zwdw7q92j5gs8meqha? Cashu Ecash over Reticulum
No, but I'm going to stash this one away in my notes in case I want to dig deeper. Thanks for sharing!