[OZAPRS] vk1nfi - vk2mpj Fill-in Digi question]

[Tony Hunt]

Ian.. Before doing anything radical like what I am about to suggest I

would talk to the local sysop and Igate operator if you are thinking 
about taking up an Igate.

 From what I can see you have a few alternatives.. The decision is yours 
to consider.. I will talk in generalities because I dont know your exact 
situation and network configuration.. Ive attached in the Pmail to you a 
document we put together last year here in regards to the New Paradigm 
and in there are some thoughts on 3 hop digi system particularly in 
regards Uidigis..

1:
If you start a Igate at your home location and Gate the local posits to 
the Net its probably the best and most relaible way to go because your 
not relying on on 3 network digi hops which becomes inheritly less 
reliable. If you have bandwidth restrictions on the Net then use port 
14580 with a valid login and No filters set. This will let you gate to 
the server feed off RF but consume almost no download bandwidth as you 
will see no posits and traffic comming back from the server. You could 
also set up a radius filter for your general area and just gate limited 
traffic to RF but talk to other sysops etc about how and whys on this. 
Using Uiview as an Igate configured correctly will also have the 
potential to get messaging working in and out of  your area..

2: By the looks of it you need one extra hop in the digi path to get to 
the present Igate. It would be nice if the path could be modified from 
your end to pick out the WIDE1-1 frames and extend these. Ive found no 
way of getting Uiview to do this.

Uidigi can do this using Preemptive features. uSmartDigi can do this 
also I suspect. These last 2 are hardware solutions. Some software 
solutions exist AGWs Uidigi might have Preemptive digipeating available 
but I have not messed with this in a long time and hesitate to recomend 
it. I do however recomend DigiNed for windows. This is workable under 
Windows with AGW or BPQ32 using the AGWtoBPQ emulation. You can run 
uiview with the Digi disabled and use Digi_Ned for Windows as the 
Digipeater which will make it very configurable. Digi_ned is probably 
the next best solution with minimal outlay if you dont want to go with 
the Igate idea. If you want some help configuring Digi_Ned I could help. 
If you want to set up a Uidigi a Eprom could also be organised as well 
to make a special fill in digi in your area.

3: Look at the Doc file I sent you. In there are some cheats that can be 
used to extend the last hop on the frame. This is done on the last digi 
on a network that could but does not repeat the frame. From your 
perspective thats the digi that is currently the one next to the Igate 
that fails to digi the frame because it sees a WIDE2 and ignores it.. 
Unfortunately doing this mod has the potential to increase traffic in 
the imediate area quite alot depending on the network situation. You 
would have to get the Digi sysop to approve this and run with it.. It 
has certain issues that are not acceptable and should be used with 
caution. Its a good cheat perhaps in a closed network with low traffic 
levels when the digis are all spread apart and you are trying to leap 
tall hills and vast distances when your RF network resources are limited 
and you want to stick to using the WIDE1-1,WIDE2-2 path.

-- 

Tony Hunt VK5AH





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Tony & Eva Hunt   wavetel at internode.on.net

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