Have used WL for years at NK7U in MS, MM, M2 environments with high levels
of RF, up to 5 PC's online at the same time. Never had any problems I would
call "networking" problems. Had something that looked like networking
problems once that we finally traced down to someone had changed the default
directories WL was using. We had multiple revisions of WL on the same PC in
some cases -- somehow someone changed the default directories across
versions on one PC which then did not behave well. We have since cleaned
this up and have one and only one version of WL on the PC's at the same
time. We also do not allow any direct web access from contest PC's
anymore -- web, IM, e-mail, etc. -- which also cleaned up the PC's quite a
bit.
But, to me WL network behavior is a shining star. Once you have a PC crash
at 2AM, drop in a spare, and have it auto-sync the log back up in seconds,
you know it is something special.
Scott/K7zo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Henderson" <bob@5b4agn.net>
To: <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 11:10 AM
Subject: [WriteLog] Network reliability
> In recent years I've used WL MS and M2 but have been troubled by periodic
> network failure and half hearted recovery. Having never been able to nail
> down the cause, I have assumed the culprit to be RF triggered by some
> combination of transmission frequency and antenna direction. UNTIL that
> is for CQWW Phone this year some visiting ops used Win-Test, which
> suffered no such network (or any other) failures during the whole event.
>
> When I enquired about their choice of WT they said it was based upon its
> overall reliability and in particular "rock solid" networking.
>
> It appears my WL network failures are much more to do with WL than RF and
> may be a set-up issue. Could someone who is running WL in a multi-op,
> networked environment and finding it to be robust, please reveal the
> secrets of their particular network set-up.
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Bob, 5B4AGN, P3F
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