Ed WA4YIH wrote: > Since its inception, the "Internet" has never gone down. > There are places where access has been unavailable, but > the Internet has never gone down. Except for the last mile, > most Internet connections are highly redundant. In the middle > of Katrina, in the middle of the biggest California Earthquakes, > the Internet has been available. (snip)
Well worked, Ed. As we're building out a few D-STAR systems ... we're making sure that they are designed to be as reliable as possible - including the gateways and network connection. In what I've drawn up so far - one of the weakest points in our whole configuration is the D-STAR repeater controller itself! Its easy to configure redundancy in that last mile network connection ... and setup a reliable gateway including maybe even a backup system. We can sustain the failure of a band module - which would leave other modules available. But if we lose the controller itself ... ugh! (Sorry if this thread is getting a bit off-topic ...) Bob W1QA [Assistant Moderator - This is on topic.]
