&gt; $20 would increase the HW cost of many typical community-networks (CN) deployments significantly.<div><br></div><div>This seems unlikely. In most cases, $20 is notably less than the cost of a single node.<br><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">&gt; Plus requiering more knowledge, maintenence, and power supply for sometimes solar-powered setups... no USB.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If that&#39;s a concern, then put the GPS on nodes where those constraints aren&#39;t a problem. You only need GPS on a few nodes (or one node if you don&#39;t care about redundancy). Most nodes will get by just fine with just plain NTP, and can happily fetch their time from the GPS nodes, or from other non-GPS nodes with a correct time sync.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">&gt; It is really NOT as simple as it sounds to plug a $20 GPS !!!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It&#39;s not particularly complicated either. The actual setup of the devices isn&#39;t particularly difficult, and you&#39;re already touching these nodes to set up wireguard on them, so &quot;I have to touch the config&quot; isn&#39;t a barrier in this case.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheers,</div><div dir="auto">Steve</div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><p dir="ltr">Cheers,</p>
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