[aprssig] New-N Paradigm Works!

[Brian Riley]

Most definitely.

  When I implemented it up here at N1BQ-3 which for all practical  
purposes links the Montreal (PQ Canada) LAN to the Albany,  
Dennis ,N2LBT, said he saw an immediate improvement in throughput in  
the Albany area. there were a couple of dozen stations in the  
Montreal LAN with obscenely abusive paths that were no longer being  
passed South.  Within a short time  Dennis and company completed the  
new paradigm shift in the vast network of the Albany LAN. What when I  
went through there with a WIDE2-2 path, I was only hearing "My Beep"  
2-3 times per posit as opposed to 4-6 times per posit before the  
change and it appears that I had 100% print to the APRS-IS versus 80%  
before.

It does work ... we may not be quite as dense as the MDDC area but it  
was a major improvement for us.



cheers ... 73 de brian  riley,  n1bq , underhill center, vermont
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On May 18, 2006, at 9:35 AM, Robert Bruninga wrote:

> Taking a fresh look at the local network last night I noticed that
> the New-N Paradigm has made a tremendous difference.
>
> 80%  WIDE2-2 or less!
> 11%  are using W3...
>   9%  are still using RELAY and WIDE.  (was 80% in 2005)
>
> This is the Washington/Baltimore area which is the highest
> density APRS on earth.  And with over 250 stations and
> over 50 digipeters showing up in the  area, the channel
> still has some dead times of many seconds, sometimes as
> many as 10 seconds between packets. (at ground level)
> making it much easier to be heard and thus, better
> reliability.
>
> The real evidence is in the packet counts per hour per station:
> Only a half dozen or less stations are hitting routine packet
> counts of over 20/hr.   Whereas before, we had probably
> 2 dozen stations with packet counts of 50 to 100/hr.  All
> caused by all the DUPES of the old RELAY and WIDE system.