[arm-allstar] Theorhetical node limit

[Doug Crompton]

Mike,

For the application you are talking about I don't think you have to worry
about limits. I would say at the moment the limit for a Pi4 in turbo mode
on an Internet connection that has the bandwidth to support it would be
about 70-80 direct node connections. Again way more than you would have
simply interfacing repeaters to remote sites.  The other factor is how many
actual radios are connected to the Pi. While you can have more than one,
some have four, I would recommend only one per Pi. In a multi-repeater site
each repeater would have a Pi and all of the Pi's would be connected via an
Ethernet switch. So in relation to a multi-port controller each Pi is a
port. This makes for a very inexpensive and very manageable repeater system
that has the redundancy of the multiple Pi's. These could then be remotely
controlled using supermon all on one screen. Does that answer your question?


*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

*http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*

On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 10:18 PM "Mike Sullivan via ARM-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> All, I am working on designing systems to link up area repeaters and
> working on different concepts. I plan on linking each club's system via
> Allstar, then also have a radio backup/link to other area repeaters for
> as-needed use. I was wondering if there was a theoretical limit to how many
> interfaces you can have connected to a system. My goal is to have the
> repeater as the main node, link them over Point-to-point links, and have
> link radios for linking to other repeaters/systems acting as local nodes.
>
> Mike
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