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Good thinking, Keith. Also, due to the large proportion of servers in
the United States, all stateside servers also respond to the
us.aprs2.net rotate address.<br>
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73<br>
Phil - AD6NH<br>
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Keith VE7GDH wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Phil AD6NH wrote...
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<pre wrap="">For some time now, rotate.aprs2.net has been available as a connection
option to Tier 2. This address keeps a pool of no more than 22 of the
Tier 2 servers (to accommodate some router firmware that will not
parse more than 22) and automatically adjusts for servers that go
offline. It is a fairly effective setup, but some clients have
responded that they do not understand why their UI-View program
running in Tuscaloosa is connected to the APRS server in Thailand...
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I've added the following to my list of servers in UI-View...
noam.aprs2.net:14580;North America - Tier 2
Something that I learned recently is that two stations connected to the
same server can still exchange messages even if that server has lost
connectivity to the Core servers (not too likely, but...) so an added
advantage (for people in North America) is that by switching from
rotate.aprs2.net to noam.aprs2.net, there would still be something like
a 1 in 12 chance instead of a 1 in 22 chance that they will be connected
to the same server as their neighbours if they also adopt
noam.aprs2.net. The odds of connecting to the same server as their
neighbours could be increased even further (in UI-View) by selecting
only two servers... the one closest to them, and noam.aprs2.net for
their backup server.
Of course, you could say the same thing about two stations or IGates
both connecting to the same Core server... i.e. if two stations are
connected to the same Core server, and that Core server loses
connectivity to the other Core servers, the two stations could still
exchange messages via the APRS-IS.
73 es cul - Keith VE7GDH
--
"I may be lost, but I know exactly where I am!"
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