Hi Glenn,
First of all I just want to state that I know that the system works, I
see the traffic flowing through my server and I find it very useful
when
I'm away sailing or out and about somewhere. When the connection is
poor
the arq connection can behave the way you say here. I know I had
that a
while when I had noise reducing DSP engaged in my transceiver, also
other hams have had identification turned on and that made the link
behave poorly. So, there can be simple reasons for what you are
seeing.
Also, are these issues related to running the server within windows?
Having said that I know that we have had a high development speed
and I
think we need to better state what a stable system should be using.
The version 2 client is coming along nicely but I still don't see
it as
a stable client as it is lacking things and there are bugs in there.
But, it has so far been labeled alpha.
To me the stable client to use is 1.5.8. It has been tested quite a
lot
now and I know it works. I have not had issues with the "Wrong
password"
but I will try to recreate that issue in bench testing this weekend.
I will do a practical demo of pskmail during field day this
saturday so
I may not have time for testing before next week.
I have not seen any discussions where someone has failed to make it
work. Would be great to connect with these hams and hear about their
issues, can you point me to where you saw that?
I think pskmail is a real easy sell, who wants to spend thousands of
dollars for an ugly modem when it's not needed...
73 de Per, sm0rwo
tis 2012-05-22 klockan 08:55 -0400 skrev Glenn Roeser:
I hope that this email does not upset anyone, and I don't mean to be
rude in any way. After observing time after time after time. Clients
will connect to a server with the intent to upload or download an
email, or use one of the other functions that the server provides,
only not to be able to get done what they were trying to do. The
client and the server will talk back and forth until the server will
go into it's sending polls mode. While it is in poll sending mode the
server will change to various modes trying to get the client to
accomplish the transfer of 100% data until it runs out of the
prescribed amount of retries. This happens with the client still
connected, because the client is still answering the server, with no
results, so I know an early "abort" had not been sent.
I know that my server does everything that it is supposed to do
because I have tested all it's functions myself. The only flaw is
that
once in a while I will get a "Wrong Password" error message while
trying to download mail headers.
I had sent an email to one of my friends the step by step method that
I use with the server and he still was unable to get results. I
watched him going at Bob's (KB2PNM) server yesterday, over and over
and over, without any luck.
I have read in various forums that hams have tried pskmail and have
given up because."I just couldn't get it to work." I'm not sure if
the
intention of the authors are to provide a program for a close knit
group of campers, and boaters, or if the authors intent is for
general
ham population to use an enjoy this fantastic program
and therefore the number of pskmail users would increase. As it
stands
now pskmail is a very hard sell.
It seems to me that as things stand now, the client is just too
complicated for the average ham to use or there are bugs in the
software that I am not aware of. I have not been able to get any
of my
friends, and these are hams that are running digital modes without
any
difficulty, to become successful using pskmail.
Wishing all very 73, Glenn WB2LMV
