Does LoRa Thing Plus depend on a public network?

Real basic question here about the LoRa Thing Plus. Can I get one acre of coverage from two devices if there is no public LoRa network around? It’s not clear to me if LoRa relies on external servers to get range.

That depends on a lot of factors…check out our intro to LoRaWAN here https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/lo … 1615791300 that should offer some insight into the constraints.

Hope this helps!

I’m wondering the same thing, but the tutorial isn’t really clear on that. The application that I am wanting to implement really only requires an intranet (local network only).

LoRa is a public network but there’s no reason why you can’t create your own private network that only your devices connect too.