Danavision
My Openspot 2 has been woking great, I have it set up to connect to REF 001c and last week it worked on my iPhone but when I got home wouldn't connect to my home network. I've gone through all of the restart and reboot procedures on the Openspot 2 and my router. It will connect to REF 030 and 012 but not 001, and it will work on 001 on my iPhone when I got away from the house. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Dan
Tyrbiter
On another mailing list I saw this:
"2. REF001/REF030, apparently the network load on these D-Star reflectors is now very high due to the number of hotspots connecting and staying connected. Could you please consider changing your gateway configuration so that you disconnect after a certain period of inactivity (this means local RF activity) so that they aren't overloaded. I know we like to listen out for activity, but we must also realise that D-Star popular reflectors cost money to run, and that includes network and processor usage. A quick look at their dashboards will reveal the problem, they're huge."
It came from Mr MMDVM, Jonathan Naylor G4KLX so I would suggest he knows what he is talking about.
HamScanMan
REF001c has always been unreliable for me and others. Poor audio, frequently going down, ect.
Maybe they should scale up to a host that has elasticity to deal with he peak usage... Yes, it costs money but do it right or do not do it at all.
The unreliability prompted me to use less popular reflectors and I get more technical reliability and richer social content.
So, in summary, do as the REF001c folk recommend, use other reflectors.
Danavision
Well, I've dumped my home network and it signs on right away on my phone. I'm more interested in being able to pick which reflector I want to use, or is it something in my router that isn't set right?
It just seems weird that it's the only reflector that doesn't work through my home network but works perfectly on my phone.
Tyrbiter
Possibly down to a difference in the routing between the two different networks and REF001C, there could be an unreliable or overloaded link in the path from your home network.
Rich WC3T
Well, the flakiness of REF001C has pointed out the fact that my router was wonky and behaving badly; so for that I thank the operators of that reflector.
I also thank this group for pointing out the instability. I was thinking that it was me that had something wrong. Apparently not. Hooked to REF004C and all is fine.
Ve6mik
Folks, this makes no sense
My iPhone hotspot supports 01c beautifully
Openspot2 will support 06c but nothing lower
WI-FI is good
So it’s not the WI-FI, not 00c, not the openspot2 hardware, but a connection issue
Need help!
HA2NON
You have different IP addresses if you use your home Wi-Fi internet connection and your cell phone internet connection. One of the IP addresses are probably banned for some reason. You should contact the server admins.