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</style></head><body lang="EN-US" dir="ltr" link="blue" vlink="purple">How many simultaneous connections are you talking about that you need that kind of horsepower? <br>
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One on the nice things about this software is how relatively low the overhead is. <br>
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I have run two usbradio (URI) nodes and a hub on a P4 3.2 GHZ machine with 2 GB of ram, and 80 GB of disk. An IBM Think center Small Form Factor desktop to be exact. <br>
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My first setup here at home was a P2 800 MHZ with 512 MB of RAM, and I think maybe 40GB of disk (that I happened to have on hand). That ran a simplex base and a hub. <br>
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My favorite hardware thus far is a Super Micro Atom D2550 1 RU box, with 4GB of RAM. It now has a 500 GB conventional disk in it. After the SSD that it came with failed one month out of the warranty period. Also using that box for my others to rsync with to backup files.<br>
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My standard setup now is a repeater and a hub on each box.<br>
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As far as a long time to recover after power failure, hasn't been a problem for me in the last 4-5 years. But then I'm not maintaining terabytes of (un-needed) disk at the sites.<br>
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No multiple container VM's or any of that stuff. Define the multiple nodes in the config files.<br>
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Nor have I found the need for an IP KVM.<br>
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And in a multiple repeater system, it's so very convenient to have them connected via a hub node. Each node in the group can then drop out and connect somewhere else, say for a net or something, without dragging the others along.<br>
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I'm about to connect a BBB node to one of our local club's RC-210. So I've read up on the controller. OK, the RC-210 is very capable. But, I think they would have been better off basing the repeater on Allstar to begin with.<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On March 21, 2015 1:42:26 PM EDT, "R. Wayne" <allstar@controlservers.net> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div>Thank you all for some fresh ideas. I too like the hub idea even though it
means a Linux server at the repeater site. The problem with Linux at a repeater
site is power outrages. I work for the hosting company that has allowed me to
place our high powered hub in a rack (dual Intel processors, quad core, 16GB
RAM, RAID [ to be replaced with SSD ]) with a 100MBit pipe. We will be able to
handle a lot of connections. At the repeater site we need to make sure that we
at least have a UPS installed that will give the site owners generator time to
come online. Otherwise Linux sucks when it scrambles. It may take hours to do a
FSCK. That means a trip to the site unless we add a KVM over IP device. $$$ all
the way around.</div>
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<div>We have three repeater sites. We have three RC-210’s. I propose adding a
RTCM on the 4th port of the RC-210 and then port 1 –> 2m port 2 –> 440
port 3 –> 900.</div>
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<div>Here’s the price breakdown:</div>
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<div>1 PC: $300</div>
<div>3 URI’s: $297</div>
<div>1 APC SmartUPS UPS: $500</div>
<div>1 KVM/IP: $305</div>
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<div>==>> $1397</div>
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<div>Compared to:</div>
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<div>1 Arcom RC-210: $400</div>
<div>1 RTCM: $269</div>
<div> </div>
<div>==>> $669</div>
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<div>The difference here besides the price is that each repeater cannot be
individually linked via Allstar. But the RC-210 can allow all three repeaters to
connect to one RTCM. From what Chris Kurtis tells us the RC-210 worked out
fine.</div>
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<div>I’d love to read more ideas.</div>
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<div>Wayne @ Node 41660</div>
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<div style="font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a title="demoman@rollanet.org" href="mailto:demoman@rollanet.org">Chris Curtis</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, March 21, 2015 9:26 AM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="allstar@controlservers.net" href="mailto:allstar@controlservers.net">'R. Wayne'</a> </div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> RE: [App_rpt-users] Multiple Repeaters Per
Site</div></div></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: #1f497d">I
used a port on the 210 for IRLP and then later
allstarlink.<p></p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: #1f497d">Works
fine.<p></p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: #1f497d"><p></p></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: #1f497d">You
still need a sound fob in between the PC and the 210
though.<p></p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: #1f497d">The
210 treats the fob as a radio and the fob treats the 210 as a
radio.<p></p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: #1f497d">210
port </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: wingdings; COLOR: #1f497d">à</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: #1f497d">fob</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: wingdings; COLOR: #1f497d">ß</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: #1f497d">
PC<p></p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: #1f497d">No
problem at all.<p></p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: #1f497d">Chris<p></p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: #1f497d">KB0WLF<p></p></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Tahoma","sans-serif"">
app_rpt-users-bounces@ohnosec.org [mailto:app_rpt-users-bounces@ohnosec.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>R. Wayne<br /><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, March 21, 2015 10:32
AM<br /><b>To:</b> app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org<br /><b>Subject:</b> Re:
[App_rpt-users] Multiple Repeaters Per Site<p></p></span></p></div></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: black">But what about using
an external controller like a Arcom RC-210?<p></p></span></p></div>
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