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Pathing considerations
- NEVER put WIDE1-1 in the path anywhere but the first position.
- If you do this, dozens (or hundreds here in SoCal) of home digipeaters within earshot of your packet’s last hop will needlessly clog the channel.
- Paths longer than WIDE3-3 are almost entirely useless.
- In our case, WIDE3-3 can relay a packet all the way from San Diego to Salt Lake City.
- Excessive WIDEn-Ns can relay your packet clear across the continent.
- In many areas, intelligent digipeaters reformat long or abusive WIDEn-N paths to something more sensible like WIDE2-2 or WIDE3-3.