[wxqc] FW: Weatherlink 5.8.0 Upgrade

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-----Original Message-----
From: wxqc-bounces at lists.gladstonefamily.net
[mailto:wxqc-bounces at lists.gladstonefamily.net] On Behalf Of
Russell.B.Chadwick at noaa.gov
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 2:34 PM
To: Discussion of weather data quality issues
Subject: Re: [wxqc] Weatherlink 5.8.0 Upgrade

Ed,

In your message below you mention port 15480.  Should be port 14580 (or
port 23).

Russ

----- Original Message -----
From: Gerry Creager <gerry.creager at tamu.edu>
Date: Sunday, March 9, 2008 7:23 pm
Subject: Re: [wxqc] Weatherlink 5.8.0 Upgrade

> Ed,
> 
> Without getting my laptop behind your router and doing some 
> forensics, 
> it'd be hard to determine where the problem lies.  You might 
> mention 
> what flavor, and SP of the operating system you're using as we've 
> seen 
> several flavors of Windows cause some problems.  XP after SP2 
> should be 
> good as should (heaven help me!) Vista.  Win9x is questionable for 
> handling DNS rotations correctly.  WinME is right out.  Mac and the 
> *nix 
> software should handle it correctly.
> 
> Most routers don't have enough memory to cache a lot of DNS 
> lookups, so 
> that shouldn't be a problem.  The exceptions tend to say "Cisco" on 
> them 
> and are designed for ISP use.  Some ISPs do attempt to limit such 
> lookups and do funny things to their bind installations either out 
> of 
> ignorance or an intent to over-manage.  There's little you could do 
> save 
> point do an outside, non-caching DNS for all lookups.
> 
> For now, I suspect we'll call it "good" as you're reporting and 
> reliably 
> hitting servers and getting your data into the system.
> 
> I want to echo my public congratulations to Philip on the 
> Environmental 
> Hero award.  He's well-deserving of it.
> 
> gerry
> 
> ed at gilbertazwx.com wrote:
> > Gerry,
> > 
> > I had noticed that I was almost always posting to cwop2 also. On 
> a rare
> > moment it would use cwop3 but then go right back to cwop2. My
> > Weatherlink 5.8.0 is configured to upload to cwop.aprs.net:15480 
> every> 10 minutes with an offset of 8. This was also the case 
> before I upgraded
> > from 5.7.1 to 5.8.0. When the recommendation came out in January to
> > switch over from rotate.aprs.net to cwop.aprs.net I was almost
> > exclusively posting to cwop2 even though my settings pointed to
> > cwop.aprs.net. I have noticed that after upgrading I seem to post to
> > cwop3 sometimes (maybe 2% of the time) which is more often than 
> before.> 
> > I was especially reading the posts last few months when folks were
> > talking about the configurations so I wasn't sure if the lack of
> > rotation was due to my router or cable modem holding onto DNS info.
> > Oddly enough I continue to go back to cwop2 even after resetting the
> > entire network (modem, router, pc...). Any thoughts on this issue 
> would> be welcomed.
> > 
> > I would also like to thank you(and all the others; and congrats to
> > Philip Gladstone on his honors)for all of your support. It is very
> > appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Ed Taggard
> > CWOP6490 (CWOP)
> > KAZGILBE7 (Weather Underground)
> > www.gilbertazwx.com
> > 
> > 
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: Re: [wxqc] Weatherlink 5.8.0 Upgrade
> > From: Gerry Creager <gerry.creager at tamu.edu>
> > Date: Sat, March 08, 2008 10:27 pm
> > To: ed at gilbertazwx.com
> > 
> > Ed,
> > 
> > Can you please check your config and tell me if you are using 
> > cwop.aprs.net or something else for your server(s)? You seem to 
> always 
> > be on cwop2 instead of rotating randomly, as we expect.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > gerry
> > 
> > ed at gilbertazwx.com wrote:
> >> John,
> >>
> >> I upgraded to WeatherLink 5.8.0 two weeks ago myself. After 
> installing 
> >> it to the default install location (c:\program 
> files\weatherlink) I then 
> >> went to File>Open Station and navigated to where my original 
> install was 
> >> located (c:\weatherlink) and selected the original station. One 
> note 
> >> though, to continue to upload to Weather Underground, I had to 
> manually 
> >> create a folder in the new path called Expansion_Modules 
> (c:\program 
> >> files\weatherlink\Expansion_Modules) and then downloaded the dll 
> >> (http://www.wunderground.com/windowsinstall/WuiWlink_1.dll) into 
> it. 
> >> Everything has worked fine since the upgrade.
> >>
> >> Ed Taggard
> >> CW6490 (CWOP)
> >> KAZGILBE7 (Weather Underground)
> >> <http://www.gilbertazwx.com>www.gilbertazwx.com 
> <http://www.gilbertazwx.com>>>
> >> -------- Original Message --------
> >> Subject: [wxqc] Weatherlink 5.8.0 Upgrade
> >> From: John James <jjames at jameshillfarm.com>
> >> Date: Sat, March 08, 2008 6:53 pm
> >> To: wxqc at lists.gladstonefamily.net
> >>
> >> I thought I would wait things out to see if there were issues wrt
> >> 5.8, and finally decided to install today. I notice the software 
> now>> wants to install in a different location (the more traditional
> >> location under Program Files instead of their own top level
> >> directory). They don't pull any data over from elsewhere, which 
> seems>> to include all the configuration data. Have people just 
> gone ahead
> >> and installed over the top of the existing directory and had things
> >> work alright? Thanks.
> >>
> >> //John
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> -------------
> >> John W. James
> >> CW4661, CW4663
> >> Web: <http://www.jameshillfarm.com/>
> >>
> >> Current weather conditions: <IMG
> >> 
>
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