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You need to take this up with the Arizona and Tier 2 guys, they are
uninterested in my opinions. In the mean time, I would suggest, as I
always do, that weather stations use rotate.aprs.net on port 23. This
will connect you directly to the core, is fault tolerant, and has far
less chance for failure.
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His opinions are of no value to Tier 2. It was almost a year before he
realized there was a Tier 2 Network. Tier 2 was developed to take the
strain off his Main Core servers which seem to have problems even
today.
The Tier 2 Network is alive and well. It is the ideal entry point to send
your WX data over the internet. We have 4 WX servers designed to take
WX data on port 23. BTW, our port’s 23’s are designed only to receive
incoming data. Steve’s comments are nothing but a ploy to bash Tier 2.
It wasn’t his idea and as Tier 2 grew to 37 servers he still maintains that
the 3 Main Core Servers at the APRS-IS can handle it all. That could be
further from the truth.
Tier 2 was developed years ago when the APRS-IS was failing and was
under a huge amount of stress. Today, Tier 2 serves as an excellent
entry point for over 4000 WX users world-wide. No, we aren’t interested
in Steve’s opinions. Users will always use what works.
More than 70% of all WX and CWOP’s use the Tier 2 servers, and have
done so for the past several years. Some of you may remember the first
ever WX server as aprswest.net it still exists, plus 3 more entry points.
rotatewx.aprs2.net port 23 will pick one of the 4 servers for you. I do not
recommend using the Main Core servers. Those servers are very busy
and have limitations in how many clients can use them.
Tier 2 usually processes over 3000 users (clients) an hour. All data is
being read by Steve’s findU.com and ‘other’ resources. When Steve
relocated his server, IP addresses changed. To this day he has refused
to tell us what those IP addresses changed to. Instead he prefers to
blame me personally for not figuring it out. Which I did .
aprswest.net is also arizona.aprs2.net and ahubwest.net from the early
days. The other dedicated WX servers are:
indiana.aprs2.net : port 23
newengland.aprs2.net : port 23
socal.aprs2.net : port 23
All part of the Tier 2 Network. We also provide many WX related resources
and a station database where can can see if your data is being received on
the APRS Internet Service, even findU.com.
My email address is dick at kb7zva.com for further information about
fine tuning for maximum usage.
This where you can see which servers are used the most. At Tier 2, if a
servers fails for any reason, it is switched to another Tier 2 server.
http://www.wxqa.com/checkservers.html
We certainly thank you for your support over the years. Happy Holiday’s!
Dick Stanich, KB7ZVA
APRSWest - Tier 2 Networks