[FADCA] Sedan Guidelines

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On Fri, 08 March 2002, wchast@utilpart.com wrote:

> 
> Grief!!
> This really tells the story of a flat network, that is all
> there is to it.

> You get what you pay for.
> 
> The whole reason they keep it to keyboarding only is because
> anything else will bring it to a screeching halt, contention
> on a flat network from anything but LIGHT keyboarding will
> stop a well populated network even of keyboarders. We have
> tested and tested that scenario many many times here in Florida
> and have seen what a flat network can do. If you want to get
> 3-5 nodes on line for a quick action type thing it is better
> than nothing, but once you really start moving traffic over
> it you need to have a tiered network, regardless of what kind
> of traffic it is. I have seen heavy keyboard traffic take a
> flat network off the air (slow it to the point that it just
> as well be off the air) so all these people are proposing is
> going back in time.
> 

Well said. Good summary.

However, just like "free" is what you pay for it, "talk of abeter netork" is just that, "talk". We all need to get moving and where we can not get the layered network working now we need to integrate with HF and wired to fill the gaps while we are building. Just because we know it is better does not make it the choice when there is nothing working.

Every day we have to prove out prodcut again. 

Russ, N4KOX