[Dxbase] Internet Telenet connection

Thu Feb 1 10:34:03 EST 2007

Joe KI4TZ
If you have a wideband connection (cable, dsl) you probably have a 
router such as a DLink, Linksys, etc. I have had users of the N5IN 
cluster telnet://dxspots.com who have corrected the disconnection 
problem by scrapping their old router and getting a new one, such as a 
Linksys WRT54G. I am sure there are other good routers as well, but 
this one is good and reasonably priced it seems. 
There can be other hardware problems. Most everything in the path could 
have a problem from ethernet cables, ethernet card, modem. Sometimes 
the only way to solve this is to swap things out. And even if 
everything is fine at your location, it can be somewhere else in the 
path, perhaps at your ISP.
Just checking my N5IN AR-Cluster I see I have a user halfway across the 
country that has been connected without a dropout for 6 days, so 
reliability is possible.
CC-User is a great program and will reconnect after a disconnect...but 
it doesn't prevent the disconnects..it does make the problem less 
annoying however.
Ron, N5IN
FireBrick wrote:
> What you didn't say is what 'kind' of connection you have.
> Many of the telephone, cable, wireless, type of broadband delivery 
> agents suffer 'micro outages'.
>> All it takes is a few moments of disconnection for a telnet link to drop.
>> I strongly suggest investigating CCU, by VE7CC, which is a fantastic 
> 'pre filtering' node software that allows you to connect to multiple 
> nodes, prefilter the cluster spots, and best of all, totally filter 
> out malcontents, obnoxious spotters,ann/full messages.
>> and did I mention that it is FREE!
> http://www.bcdxc.org/ve7cc/default.htm#prog
>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "joe barkley" <jbarkley at vnet.net>
> To: <dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 5:31 AM
> Subject: [Dxbase] Internet Telenet connection
>>>> Hi All,
>> I am having trouble staying connected to my cluster node K4MD.
>> It will vary from 3 to maybe 5 hours, but I always get kicked off.
>> K4MD has said there are no problems on the node end as everyone
>> else, telenet and packet stay connected. I am running it on a new Dell
>> via wireless internet connection to home network. I have added the Ip 
>> to the firewall
>> software and tried closing other apps down and it still does this. 
>> Any tips on how to
>> stay connected. I am sure it is not a Dxbase issue but thought maybe 
>> other DxBase users might be able to
>> help. I have tried a couple other nodes and it still does it.
>> Thanks
>> 73
>> Joe KI4TZ
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