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LoRaWAN setup in Algeria

I'm new to LoRaWAN. I want to set up a new gateway in my country (Algeria North Africa) since it has no gateways yet. I'm having some difficulties concerning finding the appropriate frequency and some similar problems. On the lora alliance website, I found that the suitable frequency for my region is 915MHz but when you start a new setup in thethingnetwork gateway, there is no router or frequency for my region?

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my location

frequencies for my location

TTN frequencies

TTN touters

Solution

  • First: I've never set up a gateway so I might miss some details.

    It seems to me that you know almost everything already. What I can understand with my broken french is that you should indeed be using 915MHz as the frequency as the other, 868MHz, isn't allowed in Algeria for use.

    It is really sad seeing TheThingsNetwork completely forgets a continent but my solution would be to register it as if you are in the US. Because the frequency (and I'm guessing also the power limit) is equal.

    And about your question for the router selection: I would suggest picking ttn-router-eu. I don't know what internet cables connect to Algeria but I'm guessing that the closest is probably a link to Europe and thus the lowest latency router would be Europe. In the grand scheme of things it probably doesn't matter much though.

    Maybe you could also raise these issues on the thingsnetwork forum as the frequency/region issue might just be that no one has put in the time/effort to add it to the options. For the router, it might even be possible to start running an application server/router for the ThingsNetwork so you can serve your region, but this is speculation on my part.