With the power of Writelog and it's networking, I have a suggestion in improving the networking flexability of WL. We have all seen (and many have posted) issues around the networking of WL, and with
sniped Better be careful here. Some of the high ports do not take kindly to even being interrogated, much less written to. You can easily wipe out a disk if you choose the wrong one. ( believe me on
I fully support Steve's proposal. We had a six station Writelog installation running on Field Day and found that the NetDDE interface to be totally unreliable. It failed at least 5 times during field
I strongly concur that something serious needs to be done to drastically improve networking. My two laptops networked fine at home, but nothing that I tried at the Field Day site could get them to se
I've never had to set up WL in a network before. A couple years ago we used WL in a 3 machine network for FD and it worked flawlessly. I think the only thing that needed to be done was to set a stati
Hear Hear. Amen. This is one fantastic program whose enjoyability is just hobbled by the constant aggravation of the networking. I was interrupted DOZENS of times at Field Day to run around and recon
The W4IY FD team also had problems staying connected on our 9A field day set-up. Two weeks prior to FD we used the same configuration when mountain topping from FM08 in the VHF contests with the same
Reading all this about network problems, is completely the opposite of what we had running our 3 Pentium 133's networked, all using 98SE. Never the first hint of a problem. I didn't setup the network
I am not a networking expert and Steve's ideas are beyond me. But, I have built and maintained a 5 computer Writelog network setup at NK7U that has endured many multi-op contests. During that time we
Let's make sure we are comparing apples to apples. How many of your computers are running Windows XP with all of its security features that make NetDDE such a royal pain in the butt? If you are runni
Author: "Gary Ferdinand W2CS" <w2cs@bellsouth.net>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:20:39 -0400
We ran a multi-multi of 5 positions this past contest year at NY4A. While I will readily admit that configuring it all required no small measure of ATTENTION TO DETAIL, especially when mixing, as we
Well, it's a poor workman who blames his tools. I just wonder how all the other thousands of us manage to do it without trouble. 73 Ed _______________________________________________ WriteLog mailing
Author: "Robin D. Keller" <rdkeller@nashvillenc.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:28:56 -0400
We used 5 133mhz machines. All had: Disk drives wiped. Vanilla copy of WIN 98. Workgroup name of WL Computer names A, B, C, D and N. Burn in for 2 weeks before FD. One died upon movement. Replaced wi
This is true, but sooner or later Writelog will face the same problem CT has today. It's reliability will depend on old and obsolete technology. Many choose Writelog over CT for the very same reason
technology. It oes now as a result of our abuse of serial and LPT ports. salvager. _______________________________________________ WriteLog mailing list WriteLog@contesting.com http://lists.contestin
At N4N, this was the fourth year we used Writelog in a networked environment. I can attest that it is a bunch better now than a few years ago. What made it really easy for us this year was that we ra
Hello all. We just used also latest version of WL during WPX CW contest. Call was DL8WPX. First we were thinking of using CT, but Ben, DL6FBL did a good job to bring us to WL. He brought some machine
Incorporation of an IP Address/Port combination could be very good. As far as static addressing, the connectivity could be designed to allow for DHCP. Basically, decide on an appropriate port number
I've been reading the replies on the reflector and would like to clarify, agree and disagree with some of them. Windows 98 as "magic answer": (partially agree...) While true, if all of us run W98 or
I too have been sitting back watching this thread. Interesting ... NetDDE and NetBIOS are depreciated things; they're still being supported in one form or another - but if you were to start from scra