Justin, First, thank you for offering. You’ve already answered one of our two typical questions with regards to uplink nodes, being is the public internet connectivity good enough to warrant it. The second question, which will end up being the important factor in this case, is what your signal strength and throughput to Larch ends up being. The routing protocols don’t have accomodations for speed, and treats all links equally. Having a poorly performing link participate in the backbone can significantly impact performance for large swathes of the network. So yes, get connected, enjoy the network, and reach out to netops@hamwan.org <mailto:netops@hamwan.org> when you’re ready, and we’ll take a look and see if it makes sense to configure as an uplink node. Thanks, Nigel
On Jun 12, 2020, at 20:46, Justin Roberts <jroberts622@gmail.com> wrote:
I am still reading on some of the specs on the PSDR and understanding the operations so bear with me if I'm missing a section. I live in Portland near the airport in line of sight of Larch Mountain and I see Larch has recently come online to link the Portland area into the PSDN. I have gigabit public internet connection with the hardware resources to either integrate a secondary LAN or operate an uplink node. I do not currently have any connection to hamwan or the communication equipment but I wanted to offer my network as an uplink point. Am I understanding that I should purchase the equipment to get established established as a standard client node firstly then circle back to connect as an upilnk?
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