You go for LoRa or NBIoT when you need the low power consumption, and especially for deep penetration. Generally, if you have a better option, you use it. LoRa and similar high latency networks can't easily run TCP due to the standard TCP timers (especially Ack timeouts).
What I would like to see is better support from the cloud providers for UDP based protocols such as MQTT-SN.
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Outstanding blog post. NRF24 had been my fav for a long time, I planned switching to LoRa but I didn't know the latency is that high.
You go for LoRa or NBIoT when you need the low power consumption, and especially for deep penetration. Generally, if you have a better option, you use it. LoRa and similar high latency networks can't easily run TCP due to the standard TCP timers (especially Ack timeouts).
What I would like to see is better support from the cloud providers for UDP based protocols such as MQTT-SN.