No, it’s not a matter of the IP address changing, that hasn’t happened. It’s hard to pin down exactly what is causing the short loss of Internet connectivity since it usually occurs in the middle of the night.

The computer is located at a mountaintop site and is linked to the Internet through a 5.8 GHz link to a house with Cox service. When I check the wireless transceiver logs, they don’t register any kind of event that would indicate a loss of connection. In fact, even though the path is about 14 miles, there is a very strong signal, well above the noise floor. Now it’s possible that there’s an interruption of the Cox service, but there’s no obvious indication of that.

I have another node that I’ll link to the mountaintop node today and see if it’s dropped in the middle of the night. It’s located at a different site, also on Cox.

Ron, AA7RP

From: Jim Duuuude [mailto:telesistant@hotmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 7:27 AM
To: aa7rp@cox.net; app_rpt mailing list
Subject: RE: [App_rpt-users] Node Disconnect

wait a minute.. I just had a thought that maybe might help here (or not??):

Perhaps our concept of 'losing the internet connection' needs to be better defined/understood here...

Do you indeed mean that your cable modem (I am making that assumption based upon your cox.net email address)
re-establishes its connection with the ISP network on the cable?? If so, then its likely obtaining a different public
IP address when this occurs, and, if so, thats exactly what would be expected. How is the connection supposed to
'follow' IP address changes mid-stream??

Or maybe that isnt it at all...

JIM WB6NIL

From: AA7RP@cox.net
To: app_rpt-users@qrvc.com
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:06:10 -0700
Subject: [App_rpt-users] Node Disconnect

I created a permalink using ilink,13 and I’m still having the same problem with disconnects.  Anyone else have any ideas?

Ron, AA7RP

On Jul 15, 2010, at 2:11 PM, Jim Nessen wrote:

>Have you looked at permalinks?  I believe that they attempt to re-establish in the event that an internet blip is >detected.

>I don't have my node handy atm to look and see what function it is, but take a look at it, might solve your issue.

>Jim, K6JWN

On Jul 15, 2010, at 1:59 PM, Ron Phillips wrote:

> I have a problem keeping two of my nodes connected at all times.  It seems that if I lose the Internet connection for only a few seconds, the two nodes disconnect from each other.  Is there a way to prevent this from happening?

> Ron, AA7RP