Hey folks I recently saw a node pop up that was just shy of 1000 miles away. I wanted to double check my understanding of how the location of nodes is determined.
Theoretically this person could have set the lat/long hard coded in the settings and could be shown anywhere. I am assuming that is what happened here as that sort of distance seems crazy to me. They did have 7 hops to get to me but even then I am dubious.
Thinking about this more I am guessing MQTT could be at play as well and I need to do some more reading there.
This is a good reminder to tell airborne nodes to be using client mute instead of client mode. It will save them battery and will keep them from relaying nodes that the ground nodes will never be able to contact again.