[App_rpt-users] Wide area traffic tradeoff

[Doug Crompton]

Educate you users to NOT connect
          the local hub to the WAN system or any other large network.
    
    

    Say what?  WAN is an open system - why would you tell people that?

    

    
       We had a problem with that for
          awhile...

        
    
    

    What exactly was the "problem"?

Kevin, Don't be so defensive! I did not say there was a problem with the WAN, what I was saying was when you have a local hub of users that are 24/7 connected together and one of them connects to a WAN simultaneously it can be a problem in that all of the sudden you have a very busy channel and the local have lost their ability to easily talk among each other. The exact problem the original poster pointed out.

To each his own. If you like massive connections they are out there for you. Just don't pollute the quieter smaller hubs with that if they don't want it. New users often make multiple connections not thinking that they are linking the world, thus you educate them. It is usually done unintentionally. 

73 Doug
WA3DSP
http://www.crompton.com/hamradio


Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 20:40:38 -0500
From: kuggie at kuggie.com
To: app_rpt-users at ohnosec.org
Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Wide area traffic tradeoff


  
    
  
  
    On 2/13/2015 4:15 PM, Doug Crompton
      wrote:

    
    
      
      But Allstar's ability to allow
          infinite connections can also lead to problems. There seems to
          be a mentality among a few that the more nodes we can connect
          together the better.
    
    

    What's wrong with connecting lots of nodes together?  

    

    
       Some people like pileups, the WAN
          system is an example. For day to day use I am not sure what
          "wide area" buys you.
    
    

    The ability to constantly test and stress your system and make sure
    its ready (really ready) for an emergency that may consume the
    system for hours or days on end.  Before I got involved in AllStar
    linking, many of the repeaters I own (about 25) went unused.  I lost
    interest and if there were a emergency I couldn't have told you what
    worked and what didn't.  Sure, systems like WIN and WAN are busy and
    take out a lot of PA's, but we know all the time what works and what
    doesn't.  At least I could tell the local 911 director what their
    immediate possibilities are.  

    

    It also buys you the ability to have diverse user base and attracts
    foreign connections that many people, especially new hams can talk
    DX without an HF radio.  

    

    
        Educate you users to NOT connect
          the local hub to the WAN system or any other large network.
    
    

    Say what?  WAN is an open system - why would you tell people that?

    

    

    
       We had a problem with that for
          awhile...

        
    
    

    What exactly was the "problem"?

    

    
         
        73 Doug

          WA3DSP

      
    
    

    

    Kevin Custer - W3KKC

  


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