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On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Patrick L. Francis wrote: > > >Question..How long do you plan on having both weather AND unidata feed > >from ATM? > > i've been doing that intentionally just to compare feeds, since the only > thing streaming into weather is ids/ddsplus no worries, you can still experiment...especially since weather is just requesting ids/ddplus..however, we have noticed that the performance of the LDM is strongly linked to the number of connections outbound..regardless of volume. > > >If it is going to be persistent for a long time, we would prefer one > >connection to ATM and have your machines feed each other... > > ok.. since the feed was so small didn't think it would hurt :( and is > an excellent opportunity to compare > I will let you know if it becomes problematic. > >saves your > >bandwidth as well, and I hear we had some volume shaping going on for > >awhile at BGSU while I was away :) > > people seem to disagree about what caused the difficulty... interesting > thing is how long we were running along fine... i am supposed to > be 'uncapped' Yes, if they would just keep port 388 uncapped all is AOK. > > >FIs SUNY the only > >downstream..? > > you had mentioned someone else needing to downstream but I have > forgotten who... > I will point any future users to the preferred IP. Are you going to contact SUNY, or shall I? > >Hope you also had a peaceful thanksgiving...we had a foot of snow and 2F > >temps...love winter :) > > brother had the DOR procedure... wish we had a foot of snow!! > Hope his heart heals well!!! we'll send some snow your way :) Cheers,