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<div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Bob - AF6D <<a href="mailto:bob@af6d.com">bob@af6d.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Re: [App_rpt-users] Building a simulcast system</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">August 11, 2013 10:23:48 AM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">'Michael Hebert' <<a href="mailto:mhebert1975@gmail.com">mhebert1975@gmail.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org">app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org</a><br></span></div><br><div>I am blessed with running my own hosting business and own my data center. At<br>home I have business class service. I have 50 down and 5 up. I think that<br>easily covers the voice portion. I have KVM over IP and Remote APC reboot –<br>or I can run it here just as easily as my data center.<br><br>1. Which version of the software is best for simulcast?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>The latest ACID. Always upgrade after install. see <a href="https://allstarlink.org/support.html#astupgrade">https://allstarlink.org/support.html#astupgrade</a></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>2. How about the hardware? By default I would use a Pentium 4 3GHz with<br>4GHz of RAM a Dell GX series desktop.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>That's plenty. I'm running 4 mix client nodes, a two client simulcast node and a four client simulcast node. That's 10 RTCMs on 6 nodes. All on a single Intel Atom D25 (1Gb RAM) with ACID installed on a SSD. It runs 94% idle and 300 Mb free.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>3. Should I run a SSD drive for boot-up or would a Western Digital RE4<br>(server class) work ok across the board?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Yep.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>3. Besides simulcast for 3 nodes I’d like to share what we have as a<br>conference node (???). Do I have enough horsepower? I have 50 down and 5 up.<br><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Yes.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>4. I'd like a private server and a public server on one PC.<br><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>No, only one server per PC is recommended. VMs are not recommended, and I might scold you if you try :-). But you can have both private and public nodes on the same server.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>I would be tremendously grateful to anyone that answers these entry level<br>questions. I don't want to make mistakes from the beginning.<br><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I'll send you a bill first of the month, thank you for your generosity :-)</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Humbly Yours,<br>AF6D<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>