2026-09-24 18:25 UTC
Here’s an interesting part of the cross-country #meshcore experiment that I wasn’t expecting: my contacts list has been full since the GTA. I haven’t made time to prune it, and didn’t realize the importance of this.
I just received a message from “Claire in PDX”, just outside of Chilliwack. (I knew the PNW mesh was strong but I wasn’t expecting this much reach (it’s 400+km to PDX)).
But the tracing tools think the same-prefixed repeaters are the ones I captured at home and earlier on the trip!
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@sesivany@social.vivaldi.net 2026-09-24 19:01
@sean@scoat.es The map is clearly wrong. A typical result of prefix collisions. What I do in @meshy while building the path on the map is that in case of a collision I pick the geographically closest colliding node to the previous node in the path. It mostly works. But only using 2B or 3B prefixes fixes this completely. I'm surprised someone still uses 1B in Canada. But it happens, the official client still defaults to it.