Freedom Mobile has set November 3, 2026, as the date it will shut down its 3G network across Quebec and the Ottawa-Gatineau region.
Freedom Mobile has set November 3, 2026, as the date it will shut down its 3G network across Quebec and the Ottawa-Gatineau region.
Ohhhhhhhh the acronym is what threw me off. I understand what you meant now.
As for meshtastic, it’s essentially unused. I haven’t checked out meshcore yet but I barely get any traffic with a 1W node even on the Halifax peninsula and haven’t heard anything sailing around the maritimes so far either.
Kinda miss the CN tower nodes. Did they ever iron out the issues with those?
Nope, the guy that installed them - blacksam - disappeared from Reddit and mesh, as the nodes went offline. I’m guessing he ran into trouble with permission. Maybe whoever allowed them didn’t quite have the authority to do so.
Still we have pretty good coverage with more 1W nodes around. I’m linking South Mississauga with Toronto for example. There’s a guy in Grimsby that links the West end to dt and East end over the water. I can reach Oshawa from South Mississauga through him in 1 hop. So while losing the CN Tower nodes sucks, the mesh is pretty usable these days.
E: Some dedicated bastard has hosted the ROBeLUS logo at https://www.robelus.com/ for 10-15 years now. Still up. 😄
Bummer! I was there when they went up and even got to catch them while out on the lake in the cell service dead zone directly offshore from Toronto. Seems like the mesh is pretty healthy at least! I remember carrying a lot of traffic across the harbourfront when I would anchor out there.
Once I’m back in Halifax I’ll see if a newer version of meshtastic can fix the reboot issues I was having with my RAK 1w node. Next time my mast comes down I’ll run 12v up there and have it permanently mounted 17m above sea-level.
I have several RAK 1W and haven’t had software related reboots. I’ve seen them reboot due to insufficient power though. At some point I fed our balcony node with an outdoors USB-C PSU along with a battery and it hasn’t rebooted since. So yours might be a power issue too.
I had tried all my power sources and even tried powering the transmitter block using a second supply without luck. Thinking about it, the issue wasn’t reboots, it seems like it would get stuck and the heartbeat light would stop flashing (sometimes on, sometimes off) and then I’d have to reset for it to work again. It was cool seeing the range it had whenever I could get it to work for 30 minutes lol
Interesting. I’d say it may be defective. I guess a software update would resolve if the unit is bad or software issue. Data point for when you get to test - I have 4 units total, ran them with 2.7.15 for a while (not all at the same time) and now at 2.8.2. No issues with these versions of Meshtastic after fixing that power situation.