epigramx:
Something crucial is that they also have an error correction mode on by default (FEC) which is an EXTREME bandwidth hog so one should only enable it if they are absolutely sure they can get away with the lost bandwidth.
The use of FEC is implicit in the use of LoRa, you cannot turn it off all together. Ebyte have an option for turning it on and off, I suspect that might actually just be changing the rate from 4:5 to 4:8.
You can (with the native LoRa device) set the rate from 4:5 to 4:8.
The standard FEC rate, 4:5 adds 25% to the number of bits sent, hardly an 'EXTREME bandwidth hog'.