I have a lopy4 device that sends data to TTN (gateway is a Mikrotik Lorawan gateway with 6.5dbi antenna mounted on roof) and despite the advertised optimum range of ~20km I am having a hard time getting even a few kilometers.
Sorry about the long delay on this one, I’ve done some research on the Lopy4 and its specifications/use within Australia (Here’s a link to the Things Network)
That’s an interesting issue, so your device is fully functional within the shorter range? As always LOS is the way to go, but by the looks of it there should be plenty, optimising your antennas to be directional may be a good move to increase range, but it shouldn’t be that low.
You could use that standard instead, but either should be providing sufficient communication between devices such as in your project.
The short answer, is not much. The long answer is that the differences in specifications, performance, capacity, etc, will change the way that your devices interact with the network (which changes depending on their application/s) if you’re curious about how they interact from a network engineering point of view I’d highly recommend reading the info on the site below.
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