[App_rpt-users] drop outs and ping pong

[Ken]

Today I added a second node to my system and had my first 
inter-asterisk QSO. I found two problems which may, or may not, be 
related.

first issue:

During the QSO, there were a lot of drop outs (both ways apparently). 
These were accompanied by "Hungup..." messages on the console. I think 
these are not anything to do with audio or USB, but rather with the 
internet (parrot mode works fine, for example). I wonder what other 
people's experience is with this? Could it be something my ISP is doing 
to me (they are famous for this kind of thing).

This happens in monitor-only mode too, and apparently it is noticeable 
on the other and as at some point when I was doing this a control 
operator came on and said my node was 'coughing' and then proceeded to 
disconnect me from his end.  I hate to think I am screwing up other 
peoples systems by just listening to them. What to do? I noticed that 
there is a "drop count" parameter in IAX

[from this I concluded that the inter-asterisk exchange protocol must 
have some end to end acknowleements ?]

second issue:

when I connect my first node to my second node on the same machine I 
get a ping-pong effect (or similar) where the first node keeps playing 
the courtesy tone (and PTT remains on continuously) and the second node 
drops the PTT but immediately keys up again. No received audio passes 
from node 1 to node 2 while all this beeping is going on.

I have commented off the CTCSS commands for node 2 and courtesy tones 
as well.

I expect this is something stupid I have done that should be easy to 
fix.

Thanks,
Ken
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