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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/28/2013 2:58 AM, Johnny Keeker
wrote:<br>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Verdana">Kevin;</font></div>
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style="RIGHT: auto" face="Verdana">I to appreciate 2135,
your efforts, and all the good natured sysops. I believe
WAN is the best voip system in the USA, mainly because the
core group is helpful. They're not out to censure or
reprimand the new-bee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In
short, They don't criticize users they actually offer to
help when possible. No other VOIP system can honestly set
claim to that.<span style="RIGHT: auto; mso-spacerun: yes">
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style="RIGHT: auto" face="Verdana">Now Then; I would very
much like to ask a question,<span style="RIGHT: auto;
mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>what linux version is 2135
using.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Xelatec
LCC 'xipar 6.3 or ACID all-star centos 5.9<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Please; If you be so
kind as to elaborate just enough to explain why you chose
one or the other for the wan system.</font></div>
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style="RIGHT: auto" face="Verdana">Thanks, and happy
thanksgiving to yours..</font></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Verdana">Jonny
Keeker.</font><br>
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Howdy Jonny,<br>
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Thanks for your kind words. As all of you know, there is a big
learning curve with this technology. I/we certainly don't expect
that Jim Dixon or Steve RoDgers would have the time to help with
thousands of AllStar deployments personally. I don't profess to be
any kind of expert with Linux or anything else, although I have
placed about 50 RF connected nodes on the air and have helped with
many many more. The quality of AllStar spoils you, and while I was
first made aware of it in 2004, it wasn't until the unveiling of the
USB radio and DSP that I decided to give it a try. I have an
original app_rpt/zapata radio interface board that I received in the
mail from Steve. The core group tries to stay as open minded as
possible. That said, we have had several things that we just
couldn't deal with like Echolink drive-by's and Echolink's lack of
voice quality. For those reasons, we (WAN) disallows Echolink on
the current core system. We do sponsor a secondary hub that does
allow Echolink, but it has fewer full time connections to it. <br>
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AllStar's audio throughput is so good that when configured
correctly, with quality radio hardware, will pass many digital
technologies like Fldigi and similar protocols. We recently
deployed a WAN Digital Hub and have started doing testing with
various digital systems to determine compatibly. Like several other
large hubs, 2135 has become something that requires the utmost in
reliability. In the coming weeks, 2135 will be rebuilt on more
modern server hardware. While the Dell 1850 has served us well, it
was a used piece of hardware when it was installed. We recently
received a donation of several newer servers that we will be
deploying. 2135 will be an array of multiple servers with some type
of fail-over.<br>
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As for your question, 2135 is using an old Fedora release of XIPAR,
although for this or any hub, it could just as easily have been
ACID. There are differences between ACID and XIPAR, but they not
significant on what release is used for a non radio connected hub.
Since you asked specifically about 2135, I'll not go into the
differences where radio connected servers are concerned - unless you
want me to...<br>
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Thanks and Happy Thanksgiving all,<br>
Kevin Custer - WJ8G<br>
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