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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><font style="" color="#000000" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">Whether the Pi3 would handle more than two USB connections remains to be seen. There is much more to it than processor speed. That being said why would you want to do that? I can understand the old way of doing things where you had one higher priced PC with hard drives, size, heat, power consumption and you didn't want to create another just to run more nodes but with the cheap small board computers that is not an issue. Most that would want to run more than two nodes are using Allstar to control repeaters and having it all run from one board is not a good way to do it from a redundancy standpoint. If one system goes down you have lost all repeaters or nodes.<br><br>I would even go as far as saying it would be much better to have one server per repeater or node. The only hardware you are adding is another Pi and power supply, not a big expense. The boards and nodes can be Ethernet connected as easily as if they were on the same server. That is the beauty of Allstar, you can have as many "ports" as you want.<br><br>I think we have to look at this from the perspective of current cost, power consumption, etc and not from the old large computer paradigm. <br id="FontBreak"></font><br><b><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">73 Doug</font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">WA3DSP</font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">http://www.crompton.com/hamradio</font></b><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><br></font><br><br><div>> Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 09:16:36 -0600<br>> To: arm-allstar@hamvoip.org<br>> Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] the Pi3 is on the way...<br>> From: arm-allstar@hamvoip.org<br>> CC: ka5iid@swbell.net<br>> <br>> Doug, looks like it will be time to see if this new version can handle more than 2 radios since it has more cores and processor speed. <br>> <br>> Stan<br>> <br>> Sent from my iPhone<br>> <br>> > On Feb 29, 2016, at 7:53 AM, David McGough via arm-allstar <arm-allstar@hamvoip.org> wrote:<br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > Well, they're now officially released for sale!<br>> > <br>> > https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-3-on-sale/<br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > 73, David KB4FXC<br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> >> On Sat, 27 Feb 2016, Pierre Martel via arm-allstar wrote:<br>> >> <br>> >> http://hothardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-3-breaks-cover-in-fcc-filing-now-with-on-board-wifi-and-bluetooth<br>> >> <br>> >> wonder what will be the cpu and speed..<br>> > <br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > <br>> > arm-allstar mailing list<br>> > arm-allstar@hamvoip.org<br>> > http://lists.hamvoip.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arm-allstar<br>> > <br>> > Visit the BBB and RPi2 web page - http://hamvoip.org<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> <br>> arm-allstar mailing list<br>> arm-allstar@hamvoip.org<br>> http://lists.hamvoip.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arm-allstar<br>> <br>> Visit the BBB and RPi2 web page - http://hamvoip.org<br>> <br></div> </div></body>
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