[aprssig] The new N-N paradigm summary (fwd)

[Earl Needham]

At 09:25 AM 1/5/2005, Eric H. Christensen wrote:
>Responses Below...
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>On Behalf Of Greg Noneman
>Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 11:11
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>Subject: Re: [aprssig] The new N-N paradigm summary (fwd)
>
>I agree that WIDEn-N was bringing in these stations.  But, is one
>packet an hour  from a handful of DX stations really going to kill the
>local network.  Also, if everyone suddenly got rid of WIDEn-N, what do
>you think these DX digis would do to their paths?  Back to long WIDE
>paths, like was the case before?  And with this, the packets get REALLY
>long and can chew up a lot of bandwidth.
>
>Yes it is killing local networks all over!  We have seen this too many 
>times before.  We shouldn't be going back to the long WIDE paths but 
>should be using the new SSn-N.  So if you use RELAY,NC2-2 then that would 
>be the equivelant of using RELAY,WIDE2-2 except the packet is now 
>contained within a geographical area where it can be managed.

         If your network is so congested that six stations each beaconing 
once an hour take it down, then there's something else wrong.

         7 3
         Earl


Earl Needham, KD5XB, Clovis, New Mexico DM84jk
http://kd5xb-2.no-ip.info