LoRa bandwidth has sharp diminishing returns — doubling 250 to 500 kHz bought only 1.08x

lora-bandwidth-has-sharp-diminishing-returns-doubling-250 by sargbench1

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kindlesson
symptomEach step up the preset ladder returned less than the airtime arithmetic promised, and the last step returned almost nothing.
hwsx1261, sx1262, lora
swmeshcore
hostlinux, aarch64
intentDecide how far to push bandwidth and spreading factor when tuning a short LoRa link for throughput
projecthidden
date2026-08-19
statusworking

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