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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=ET link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks Peter and Luca,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>But I do not complain about synchronization. Yes, of course I have the syncrhonization activated (Disable.. not checked) and the synchronization works OK. SYNC command is not needed. So when one computer drops out of network and either WT reload or computer restart restores the network then all the QSOs are usually nicely synchronized. The problem is losing the network (network being disabled by WT or other reasons) for some reason once in a while.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I read from WT wiki that fixed IP is recommended. So maybe that is what I should do to avoid trouble? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>But is there any reason to believe cable ethernet is better than WIFI?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>tonno<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> support-bounces@f5mzn.org [mailto:support-bounces@f5mzn.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Luca NCJ<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 04, 2013 10:15 PM<br><b>To:</b> support@win-test.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [WT-support] how to increase the WT network reliability?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Tonno,<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>have you never tryed to use the command "SYNC" instead of reload?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Last year in D4C M/M using 7 PC's some of them connected with cable (3 if I rememeber well) and the rest via local WI-FI and the differences between logs were really minor after 48 hours (and not present in all logs).<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>We used same IP category both for cable and WI-FI and with automatic IP Address.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Ciao<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>2013/4/4 Peter <<a href="mailto:pc2a@pi4cc.nl" target="_blank">pc2a@pi4cc.nl</a>><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tonno,<br><br>At PI4CC we run M/M up to 12 computers and find always that all the computers has the same log.<br>If a computer has a outage/crash of if a new computer plugged into the network it fills automagic with all the qso's without any command.<br>I have never used the command reload<br><br>But all the computers are connected via cat5<br><br>Peter<br>PC2A<br><a href="http://www.pi4cc.nl" target="_blank">www.pi4cc.nl</a><br><br>Op 4-4-2013 20:46, Tõnno Vähk schreef:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We and I think most other multi op stations are used to the network problems<br>that cause one computer lose network and RELOAD is needed to restore the<br>connection. There are different kind of error messages about non-unique QSO<br>identifier, some erroneous UDP sockets or whatever...<br><br>I find this an unavoidable part of multi op operation. We did MM for the<br>first time in WPX SSB with ca 15 networked computers. The amount of needed<br>RELOAD's also went up. And now there were at least 3 times when reload did<br>not help and computer had to restarted to restore network. It was strange<br>that packet spots were flowing but QSOs did not and synchronization did not<br>function also before restart was done.<br><br>We used a mix of cable and wifi network. Of course making sure no computer<br>had both enabled. For cable had mostly determined IPs and for WIFI<br>automatic.<br><br>My question is - can anyone say or recommend:<br><br>Is it better to use cable rather than WIFI?<br><br>Is it better not to mix two?<br><br>Is it better to use determined IP instead of automatic? Does it make any<br>difference?<br><br>Any other ideas how to make the network more reliable and save the trouble<br>of frequent reloads and restarts?`<br><br>73<br>Tonno<br>ES5TV<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Support mailing list<br><a href="mailto:support@win-test.com" target="_blank">support@win-test.com</a><br><a href="http://lists.f5mzn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support" target="_blank">http://lists.f5mzn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>_______________________________________________<br>Support mailing list<br><a href="mailto:support@win-test.com" target="_blank">support@win-test.com</a><br><a href="http://lists.f5mzn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support" target="_blank">http://lists.f5mzn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br clear=all><br>-- <br>Luca IK2NCJ <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>