Keep on trying, I could change it, but I need the downlink successful. Very seldom saw a second attempted, this were even under development when I sent 2 or 3 downlinks per day per node for testing and doing this to 3 nodes at the same time. (maybe I were lucky, so don’t count on it)
Yes 12 per day, 84 per week, 360 per month. BUT
So very unlikely the builders skip parked in front of 2 or more gateways.
Responsible use is not only from 30sec per day uplink and 10 downlinks, also to try ensure using SF7 instead of SF8 (not always possible I know, sometimes you need use SF10) and redundant gateways
I would love to have a few nodes deployed in very busy gateway area, somewhere in the 1000’s
The point here for me is that there are ways of implementing ‘fairly reliable’ (not mission critical) ways to make your nodes to work. You can’t think that very low RSSI and bad SNR you are going to get reliability, doesn’t matter what RF technologies you are using, you are going to fail.
And one more point, also try to use same gain antenna on the gateway as on the node for applications where downlinks are used.