[aprssig] firenet

[Wes Johnston]

I'm on 4.5meg cable modem... Don't think it's overloading my connection....

I'll try a filtered port as recommended though....
Wes

Curt Mills wrote:

>On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Wes Johnston wrote:
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>>I'm connected to firenet.us on port 10152 and keep getting disconnects. 
>>My client is xastir, and I'm set to auto-reconnect on failure, but it
>>seems that every time I check, it's disconnected.  Xastir eventually
>>reconnects like it should, but why does the link keep dropping?
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>Most likely you're overloading your internet link.  Try connecting
>to port 14580 instead and set your filters to only snag what you
>want to see.  Chances are your link will stay up.
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>I have the same problem on my slow dialup.  I can't connect to a
>full firenet feed, and I think a full APRS-IS feed is iffy these
>days too.  Firenet carries a lot more traffic than APRS-IS.
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