[WriteLog] Network reliability

[K7ZO (Scott Tuthill)]

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 at 5b4agn.net>
To: <writelog at 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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