DMR is only as good as the internet connectivity connecting the DMR Repeaters, whether one's talking to someone in another state or another country. Network latency, ping response connection stability are critical.
From a DMR Repeater owner perspective (as I was up to last year) it isn't cheap to acquire a DMR Repeater, install a decent high-performance high-coverage antenna and run it 24x7x365 as I used to.
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