We dont have many here, but shortfast is like 10x faster than LongFast and can handle many more connections.

As there are more nodes, there will be more locations in which Shortfast has people broadcasting. During band openings, you might even start seeing people over RF instead of over MQTT.

I think a lot of the UK has gone over to meshcore but at least personally I wouldn’t use it because the app is not open source and I refuse to use anything that’s not open source if I can at all avoid it. https://meshcore.co.uk/

Also, keep your antenna game down. That 3DBI is fine. And even the 5DBI is okay. But much higher than that. And you’ll start to see problems with elevation changes. Not wanting to let your nodes communicate.

From what I understand, you can have several hundred nodes easily on the fast modes. That is definitely a quick overload compared to your traditional cell phone network. But there are not that many people with Meshtastic and not that many events where the super fast modes are even required. Even in large metropolitan areas, I’m only seeing upwards of 30 or 40 people on MeshMap, and obviously that’s not showing everybody because that’s opt-in, but that would still be well within the range of the fast modes.

Well, eventually some people are going to have to change, especially those in suburban or urban areas will probably need to go into at least medium or short range modes just due to the density of nodes. I live in a small city (~50k pops) and was just checking around to see if anybody else was in one of the faster modes. But at least as of yet, I don’t see anybody. So for now, long fast is fine, but there will come a day when it no longer will be.

How high is your node?