<div dir="ltr">Bryan,<div><br></div><div>What prompted the switch from Google Groups? As far as I could tell there was no issue with the way it was working. The way I see it you just took a struggling project and removed access to the archives of valuable information and switched to a mail list with a more archaic interface. I use Google Groups all the time and have had no issues whatsoever. Now, if you were switching from Yahoo Groups I might support the move. I for one vote for a switch back to the Google Group.</div><div><br></div><div>I am considering bringing the K8BIG repeaters back online as V2 but have been a bit concerned about the stability issues - so I haven't wasted my time - which I don't have much of these days. I just procured a high-tier server for the repeater site which I am setting up to run VMware ESXi so I can run mutliple VMs including a D-Star Gateway and possibly 2 P25NX nodes (One for VHF, one for UHF). Hopefully this will get around some of the issues some have had with SD Cards, etc on the PIs. I am running RAID 50 on the server with 8 drives, 128GB RAM and 2 x 8-Core Xeon E5 processors. I would certainly hope that that will be enough horsepower. It was surprisingly affordable as well.</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding the dropped audio packets on the network - we deal with that at work frequently when customers don't purchase their leased lines/MPLS Circuits with appropriate LoS agreements. The P25 data streams can deal with some latency and packet loss but high-jitter, high latency networks such as the internet are not ideal. I suspect most of the issues are due to this. If a carrier's network gets busy it just dumps the traffic into a "Best Effort" pool and sends it when the bandwidth is available - if the bandwidth doesn't become available within a specified time window the packets are simply dropped. Other than adding buffering of some sort I don't know if there is a good solution to this. This is an challenge for every internet-linked digital radio network.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks.</div><div><br></div><div>Dan Woodie, CETsr</div><div>KC8ZUM</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 2:05 PM Bryan Fields <<a href="mailto:Bryan@bryanfields.net">Bryan@bryanfields.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Greetings all,<br>
<br>
I've been working with David, NX4Y and Earnest, VK2ERG to get this list<br>
migrated from google groups to mailman. We should be up and running here.<br>
There's some plans for docs and the website as well, but we all want to ensure<br>
the network continues to function and grow.<br>
<br>
If you have any questions, please post them and we'll try to help as best we<br>
can. We're doing the IP allocation and helping with<br>
configuration/troubleshooting. It's unfortunate, but we're unable to migrate<br>
the old google groups archives.<br>
<br>
If for some reason you don't want to be on this list, let me or Earnest know<br>
and we'll remove you asap.<br>
<br>
73's<br>
-- <br>
Bryan Fields<br>
<br>
727-409-1194 - Voice<br>
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