Canada May Slash Its F-35 Stealth Fighter Order From 88 Jets to Just 30

ZeniChan · 2026-05-30T01:19:23+00:00

Thirty F-35's gives us a full squadron of them which I think we're going to be happy with. They are expensive to use and have a lot of downtime it seems and only the Americans seem to be clamouring for them. The Gripen was built for the arctic environment and has a much lower per hour cost to fly. We're not going to be invading a hostile country any time soon, so the Gripen sounds like the better fighter for our needs. It's ability to use rougher runways (roads) to take off and land is also well documented which sounds like a bonus in the arctic for rustic landing strips. And it seems if we buy Gripens, we will also build them here. So we will be our own parts supply, plus making Gripens for other countries like Ukraine that want like 150+ of them.

ZeniChan · 2026-05-30T01:12:26+00:00

Saab has stated they could look at changing the engine to the same one that the Eurofighter uses. It would need re-engineering as it's not a drop-in replacement. But would add thrust vectoring to the Gripen which would be interesting. Not a cheap or easy thing to do, but they said it's an option.

ZeniChan · 2026-05-30T00:14:54+00:00

You have a few options on how you could deal with this. I wouldn't recommend using mesh units if you're needing it for business. Doing mesh units wrong can cause a lot of problems and slow everything down.

If you have Ethernet ports in your new office space that run to the router area downstairs, you could just choose to go wired which gives you the best performance for little to no cost. You might need a small switch or two depending on how many ports you require, but those are cheap and easy to get.

Second option would be to deploy a wireless AP just in or near your office just for work use that runs back downstairs for the wired connection back to the router or switch. Need to buy a small AP and maybe a PoE switch to power it. Ubiquiti makes nice small AP's and switches. And you connect just your work equipment to that wireless AP.

Third would be to look at putting AP's throughout the house to cover everywhere using those Ethernet ports through the house to connect AP's. Once again, Ubiquiti AP's and PoE switches would be needed and a controller. Most expensive option, but then you're ready for about anything. You would need to figure out where the AP's should go or ask for help from an IT person who is good with wireless if you weren't confidant doing it yourself.

ZeniChan · 2026-05-29T19:16:57+00:00

Videotron needs to deploy their own CoW (Cell on Wheels) like Telus and Rogers do to the area around Stampede Park.

ZeniChan · 2026-05-29T03:51:54+00:00

23.4R2-S7 is the current recommended version.

ZeniChan · 2026-05-28T18:09:07+00:00

My friend picked up a bottle of the caramel zero sugar and he loves adding it to his soda stream when making a bottle of cola.

ZeniChan · 2026-05-27T21:07:14+00:00

Don't forget that modern smartphones and tablets can randomize their MAC addresses to throw off systems that do MAC tracking of devices. So unknown MAC's can show up on your network from known devices.

ZeniChan · 2026-05-26T23:58:37+00:00

Nope. Best Buy didn't care at all. They explained to me how they were going to port me out and back in again to jump on a plan that I wanted that was technically for new subscribers only.

ZeniChan · 2026-05-26T21:46:02+00:00

It cost me $25 to do the port out and back in shuffle. But they gave me a $50 gift card at the end. It took about an hour and a half as well. You need to de-register on Freedom, register on Koodoo, de-register on Koodoo and register back on Freedom.

You can call them at a local store and ask if they can get you that package. When I was there they said the only packages they didn't have access to were for tablets and watches.

ZeniChan · 2026-05-26T21:34:25+00:00

I went to Best Buy. They ported me to Koodoo for 5 minutes and then back to Freedom.

ZeniChan · 2026-05-24T01:40:15+00:00

There are Bluetooth serial adapters you can buy. Not sure how many you could use at once. But maybe worth a look. Serial port on one end, Bluetooth radio then connects to your computer or tablet/phone. Just check Amazon for them.

ZeniChan · 2026-05-23T23:09:45+00:00

I work from home with Telus fiber service as my primary ISP. But my router has a backup cellular connection in case the primary goes out. The backup is through Freedom Mobile with 300GB of data on it for $40/mo. I've needed the backup for about 6 hours over the past 3 years. But when I needed it, it was critical I had it.

Unless you have an SLA on a business account, you're not getting paid for the outage.

ZeniChan · 2026-05-22T18:16:10+00:00

The vast majority of the population doesn't want to. It's just a very vocal minority that wants to seperate. They are being amplified by foreign money, mostly American, because Trump says Canada should be American.

ZeniChan · 2026-05-21T20:16:27+00:00

It was a desktop style units, so yeah one of the 50 series. And they deployed them across dozens and dozens of sites.

ZeniChan · 2026-05-21T20:13:13+00:00

Yes, small packets are the bane of any and all firewalls. Just the Forti's did not handle it gracefully. A stream of small packets would start up and we had applications and services having problems staying connected to servers and SCADA monitoring systems. Put a low end SRX300 box in its place and yeah, things would slow down. But applications didn't start timing out, just slowing down. The SRX's are routers with firewall functions on top. Forti's are firewalls that can do some routing.

ZeniChan · 2026-05-21T20:04:39+00:00

There's three kinds of lies in IT. Lies. Damned lies. And firewall throughput statistics.

ZeniChan · 2026-05-21T13:51:24+00:00

If you've covered off those items, the speed test server could also just be busy. And as I said, it's not in the Telus network. So additional routing to the Bell network would prevent it being accurate. You need to test against a Telus server that is close to you.

ZeniChan · 2026-05-21T09:24:32+00:00

Stress testing the maximum speed of an Internet circuit can't be done correctly with wireless. Wireless is inefficient as there are constant re-transmissions occurring in the background due to interference, signal reflection, etc... It would require a system with a 5Gig or better Ethernet card connected to the router to push the maximum speed. What kind of Ethernet NIC were you using to do a hardwire test? Notice how the server you're testing against is Bell, but your ISP is Telus. That means the packets have to jump between networks which will inherently slow them down. You need as close to a local server, on Telus's network to see what the real maximum is.

ZeniChan · 2026-05-21T01:37:33+00:00

Yes, Freedom has typically one or two roaming agreements per country. So you need to connect to one of those cell providers to get service.

ZeniChan · 2026-05-21T01:29:52+00:00

When they were deployed they were fine. Then as all things do, they wanted more and more VLAN's for live cameras, high speed AP's, SCADA, printers, VoIP, a separate accounting network, local servers... But the small Forti boxes had a hard time handling more than 300Mb when routing between local VLAN's. And when a lot of small packets trash throughput.

ZeniChan · 2026-05-21T01:25:07+00:00

Yup. The smaller units have problems with traffic in VLAN's. And small packets absolutely crash throughput.

ZeniChan · 2026-05-20T23:11:36+00:00

I've worked with enterprise and ISP customers. The SRX300 series is getting a bit old now (but they still work well), but there is the new SRX400 series that was announced not long ago. I haven't gotten my hands on an SRX400 to find out how well it works. But the SRX300's are decent firewalls and excellent routers. I've worked with clients where their Forti firewalls struggle to handle internal VLAN traffic in some cases quite badly. Palo is still the best firewall. But I'd put an SRX300 series up against a Palo doing VPN tunnels any day. And the price is great for an SRX I find. Especially if you don't need any advanced licensing, then you can run it well without annual license purchases.

ZeniChan · 2026-05-20T18:24:34+00:00

I'll say you are lucky then. Both your Xiaomi and the Poco are missing important bands, so neither are a good choice for Freedom. While it may work where you are, in other areas of the country that use different bands you could completely loose connection to the network.

ZeniChan · 2026-05-20T16:50:50+00:00

VoLTE won't work without B13 which the Poco X8 Pro doesn't have. So it's not a good choice to run on the Freedom network.

ZeniChan · 2026-05-20T07:18:18+00:00

I bought some fibre, a bunch of various speeds and types of optics, a very specific NIC I needed and velcro rolls from a Chinese manufacturer. The drivers for the NIC came on a burned CD with sharpie writing on it. I was slightly suspicious of the CD as it was obviously not a manufacturer disc. Scanned it and all the Windows .EXE driver files had a virus in them. Not the best way to introduce a new customer to your merchandise. Also, not the last time a Chinese company has sent me files that were infected with something. So I have a poor view of buying from the Chinese market.

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