Hey guys,
Hope everyone is doing well.
I thought i would reach out to you guys to get some discussions about
allstar, and perhaps taking near-900 to an allstar platform. Having
worked with allstar for quite a while now there are a number of
advantages over IRLP.
Recently there has been a huge shake up in the IRLP community that
everyone needs to know about. Without notice, Dave Cameron and his
boys pulled all the pgp keys from any nodes that were cross connecting
between IRLP and allstar. There was no email sent, no discussion. 1
day none of the nodes worked.
Virtually every repeater owner i know is pulling the plug on IRLP.
Allstar is basically IRLP but with no limits and certainly far superior audio.
Repeater owners have migrated to allstar years ago, and i should have
made the jump back then.
The major allstar package being distributed now is called hamvoip.
www.hamvoip.org
I personally run it on several nodes and it's awesome.
So, i thought i would open up the discussion about perhaps starting to
migrate near-900 to an allstar platform and get everyone's thoughts.
1 of the major advantages is that you can create any network that you
want and in any configuration. You can certainly setup a central hub
where everyone connects, but then each node for example could connect
to other 900 repeaters. You name the possibility it can happen.
1 advantage, and i'll use my case as an example. I can't always hit
my repeater reliably, but i have 3 allstar nodes at the house. I
could connect 1 of them to my 900 machine or to the hub and talk to
everyone across near-900.
Over the last several months we've taken my Quahog repeater network
and gone allstar.
So, what does everyone think?
The platform is solid, proven with no limitations, and it works awesome.
Cheers,
Jed