Looks like my charming personality worked. I got my order in. Nice that the billing happens in the summer I can put it towards the next school years budget.
, I also just saw and purchased this bit of sorcery. The Ethernet Featherlight shield.
I will include a diagram but this makes the IOT RANGE information even more important. I can adapt to the photon having good and bad Wifi days but with the mesh, especially with a starting good Ethernet connection the IOT RANGE information becomes really important for spacing your mesh.
So your IOT RANGE now becomes really important to determine how many Xenons are needed to cover a certain distance.
On the low end using my Photon if x = 3 m (10 feet) then with 10 devices Y can only be 30m (100 feet), however if x=my high end of 60 m (200 feet) then Y could theoretically be 600 m (2000 feet) a huge difference. And who knows the new devices may have 10x the ability of the old devices. We will just have to wait and see.
But for now I think my IOT RANGE could be quite useful to people thinking of purchasing Particle Mesh devices.