[App_rpt-users] [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Getting to know App-Rpt all over again.

[Benjamin L. Naber]

The Wi-Fi maybe what is making your audio flaky.

Many of us use the cheap sound fobs with the CM108 and have zero
problems.

Remember that with Wi-Fi, you are competing for bandwidth and Wi-Fi, in
it's present state, is simplex, or in the network world CSMA/CDA. If it
was full duplex, then it would probably be better. You will have to
ensure your Wi-Fi access point has Wireless QoS to ensure the packets
from the Wi-Fi allstar node have priority.

To add to the complication, you are also competing for bandwidth on your
router, if you do not already have QoS setup. For those of us that have
more than one device on the network that accesses the internet, the
router by default is going to send FIFO, or First-in First-out... if the
TX and RX buffer(s) aren't full. And when they are, the router, or cable
modem will begin to drop packets from either direction.

For QoS, there is some a small number of types. Theres HTB and HFSC and
some others. HTB is has been ruled to be better and more robust. There
are also different variations with HTB such as "weighted" and "forceful"
for a lack of more intelligent words. M0N0wall uses the weighted version
of HTB with totally sucks, in my opinion, as some of the packets
mangled/manipulated to have more importance, are still sent out late or
not at all. "Forceful" HTB doesn't care, it will do it hardest to send
out the packets according to a present level of priority. And it's very
effective, too. Look around on the good 'ol interwebs for HTB QoS, and
you will learn a lot more than you want to.

Bottom line: if you have access to an extra port on your router or
switch, plug in the allstar node, avoid Wi-Fi. Take the time to run the
ethernet cable. Wi-Fi is not all it's cracked up to be.

~Benjamin, KB9LFZ



On Tue, 2013-02-26 at 13:50 -0600, George Csahanin wrote:
> You can roll your own custom Limey as well. Not too much of a c.f., but I did it to add wifi. 
> 
> I also said I'd write a how-to, but time is my enemy...
> 
> But just ordered one of those HP boxes and will probably at some point try to roll a Limey for it. I need to stop using the d945 boards all over. The USB is plain flaky with transmit audio.
> 
> GeorgeC
> W2DB
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On Feb 25, 2013, at 7:52 PM, "Benjamin L. Naber" <Benjamin at kb9lfz.com> wrote:
> 
> > Ok. First DO NOT INSTALL ACID TO ANY TYPE OF FLASH DRIVE!!!!!
> > 
> > ACID is meant for a spinning hard drive installation. The constant
> > read/write cycles will cause your flash drive to fail very quickly.
> > Not necessarily the read cycles, but the constant "writing" to the flash
> > drive will cause premature errors in flash drives. Remove ACiD, and
> > either install ACID to a USB hard drive or get an IDE adapter kit. Limey
> > Linux is loaded to ram, decompressed, and then runs completely from RAM.
> > Any changes are saved to a special area that are saved for the next time
> > you have to reboot. Unless you use "svcfg" to change changes, you can
> > mess and tweak with all the settings and then when you screw it up, pull
> > the power cord, and plug it back in to begin again.
> > 
> > Second. The out-of-the-box configurations work. You may need to do some
> > audio tweaking, but that is it. Nothing else. There should be zero need
> > to mess with rpt.conf, or the others. 
> > 
> > If I were you, I would download both versions of Limey Linux and either
> > use phydiskwrite (windoz) or "gunzip -c xx.img | of=/dev/hdX
> > bs=16k" (linux) to burn the either the i686 or VIA kernel version of
> > Limey to your DOM (disk on module) flash drive that came with the thin
> > client. You can use a program such as DSL drop into shell, sftp into one
> > of your servers, or copy the Limey Linux .img files to a thumb drive.
> > 
> > ~Benjamin, KB9LFZ
> > allstar node 28569
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 15:14 -0800, Orland Lopez wrote:
> >> 
> >> Folks, I succesfully installed ACID on to a HP T5720 Thinclient and
> >> got it running on a CF card( Ive Done that before and it run
> >> Flawlessly for about 10 months until the forced migration that is). I
> >> correctly set the portforwarding correctly for both Echolink and
> >> Asterisk. I uncommented the Stats reporting but its not showing up in
> >> stats.allstarlink.org same thing goes with Echolink, its not
> >> registering. Just for info, I am using a URI and it detects it and can
> >> be configure fine... Checked  iax.conf and rpt.conf and all fine and
> >> dandy there too. What else could it be.  I honestly would like to
> >> start from scratch meaning to wipe my account in allstarlink
> >> (Configuration) so I requested a new node number but still not
> >> registering in the system.  Can you guys help?.. BTW i turned the
> >> system off to prevent any unwanted interference with the server in
> >> case its going nuts in the background.... So help is needed and much
> >> appreciated.
> >> 
> >> Node number I had in the past was 2519 and also have the new 29382  
> >> -- 
> >> Gracias y 73's 
> >> Hasta la Vista
> >> KI6LNX
> >> YN1OB
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