[App_rpt] 2199 Update

[Tony Langdon, VK3JED]

Following some major changes to the VK IRLP/Echolink backbone, the 
performance of AllStar node 2199 has been improved considerably.  The 
audio dropouts that plagued the system appear to have gone in early 
testing, and I'm getting a clean feed.

The distance has been reduced from around 16000km to 800km between 
the AllStar node and the rest of the network.  Latency across the 
link is now a little over 20mS RTT (down from around 200mS), and most 
likely less jitter.  I do eventually intend to move Asterisk to the 
same physical server as the new hub, but we are having issues getting 
Asterisk compiled correctly for the environment (the system is 
running in a vserver virtual machine).  Once the final move has been 
made, AllStar will also have the capability to handle many 
simultaneous connections, probably limited by the resources of the 
host machine (which is a fairly beefy box, I am told).

Give 2199 a whirl and see if you can confirm my test results.

73 de VK3JED
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