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@kuggie.com
To: app_rpt-users@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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