Now that we’ve had stuff in the field for a few weeks we’re rolling back our focus on shipping new users and instead focusing on polishing our next major revision and including fixes to pitfalls we see affecting our currently live users.

We’ve had some downtime in Clatskanie trying to use a cheap n600 as the gateway infrastructure, I was curious how it would react under prolonged load. The answer is not well, it’s being swapped with an Edgerouter.

Sadly it doesn’t look like the n600’s are going to have a very long shelf life. After extensive debugging I have found their performance issues are due to slow context switching on their single core cpu’s. They simply can’t finish decrypting WireGuard packets fast enough.

We’ve also found some really bizarre WireGuard issues with our Australia test deployment. The backhaul tunnel to the exit server goes on and off every couple of seconds. I think it’s related to packet reordering on the backhaul network if I had to guess. More detailed investigation is in work.

The Claskine deployment will be working on getting their off grid tower deployed and linked into the mesh on Wednesday, I hope to get some cool pictures from that to share with you.