[HamWAN PSDR] Status of HamWan in Puget Sound?

[Ryan Elliott Turner]

Satellite based internet providers may also have performance degredations
in a high-utilization period -- while they're not cellular, they do utilize
spot beams, which segments their services. I'll leave it to others more
familiar with this technology to elaborate; I don't know enough about their
pre-emption abilities to say how impactful this would be.

On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 10:44 PM, Nigel Vander Houwen <nigel at nigelvh.com>
wrote:

> John,
>
> I think any option you listed is susceptible. HamWAN is designed to be as
> robust as possible with multiple paths to most everything. But it can
> conceivably fail for parts or all of the network. It’s another option.
> There’s a finite chance that service X will fail in the earthquake, the
> more services you have available to you, the more chances one will still
> work.
>
> Your ground based Hughes dish is just as vulnerable to earthquake shaking
> as your HamWAN client dish would be, and I have to believe given the
> history in earthquakes, that the cell networks will be entirely overloaded
> and useless, assuming you get a signal at all.
>
> Also note that HamWAN isn’t supposed to be an “internet replacement”, it
> does have connectivity to the internet, and if that still works in the case
> of the big one, great! Consider HamWAN closer to an island, like yourself.
> There’s all sorts of connectivity within the island. (EOC/DEM, Hospitals,
> etc.), and it has links to the internet for greater access.
>
> Nigel
>
> On Dec 22, 2016, at 19:49, John V. Cornelison <john at VashonSoftware.com>
> wrote:
>
> A couple of tech savvy folks on Vashon are recommending against HamWan for
> emergency Internet access if Vashon’s sole fiber optic connection to the
> mainland gets severed. Apparently the problem is that the nodes wouldn’t
> survive an earthquake ‘reorienting’ the antennas. Can anyone confirm the
> validity of this?
>
> Given that HamWan seems to have been created about 2005-2007, are there
> any more modern alternatives for robust internet to Vashon Island?
>
> We’re currently leaning toward (the much pricier) Hughes or other
> satellite dish connection.
>
> I know of the incoming/potential www.onenet.wa.gov for public service
> agencies – which should be available to us. We had considered a microwave
> hookup to the South King County data center near Tukwila or to a commercial
> provider such as www.accelnet.net/www.cortland.com. Some cell towers from
> the mainland reach parts of Vashon too, enabling a hot spot approach.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Thanks & happy holidays,
>
> John Cornelison
> KE7KDQ
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