Since our last update we’ve managed to solve our Rust cross compilation issues pretty handily. There’s some binary size optimization that remains to be done but everything is functional now.

Likewise Rita our billing daemon continues to evolve rapidly to meet our Alpha milestones.

My immediate goal this week is to get the MVP firmware routers physically shipped for initial testing, this should coincide with the first major links being tested in Clatskanie OR. I’m quite happy with the firmware at this point, most of what remains is infrastructure setup like update servers and the networking exits.

There’s also a level of burn in validation, 24 hour packet loss tests etc are important to prove out the reliability people expect from their internet. I’ve found a few issues so far that only show up after multiple hours of uptime. I’m glad to get those solved now and not in the field.