Reticulum doesn't stipulate a standard frequency or other LoRa settings to be used with Reticulum RNodes, so it's left to us to define our own.
OK, OK - here they are…
(Last updated 23/10/2026 with settings proposed by wd on Discord. See Reticulum frequency change channel on Discord for more information)
In selecting the standard settings for us to use, two factors were considered…
If you're configuring your rnode via the config file (eg. ~/.reticulum/config) - here is a snippet of the RNode config section…
[interfaces]
[[RnodeMediumFast]]
type = RNodeInterface
interface_enabled = true
port = /dev/ttyACM0
frequency = 920125000
bandwidth = 500000
txpower = 22
spreadingfactor = 9
codingrate = 5
name = RNodeyboi
selected_interface_mode = 1
configured_bitrate = None
You'll need to update /dev/ttyACM0 to your actual device serial port as well as your name.
Other configuration considerations
For your RNode to route packets for others (aka “mesh the mesh") you'll need to enable Transport Mode (I think…?).
At time of writing, we don't have any connections yet so we'll need to confirm this!
The thought process described above is pretty much all the thought that went into the current settings!
If you know more about this, or if anything described above is wrong and you want to propose better settings – please do! No offence will be taken!
Please raise in the reticulum-general channel on Discord!