Hi Lynn, Good question and it is really one that need answer. But as it is obvious for most of the vocal people that talks here it is rarely being discussed. In a few words the net for 44 net is what ever things that can be done over an ethernet or tcp/ip connection and even more. The sky is trully the limit, ( and the only thing that can lower the goal is the effective bandwith available. Just like your home network connected to your internet service provider. When you connect to the 44 net either by Tunel or other mean(like a radio link) you are really connecting to a simple network that ahve limit of speed but it can be used as any other network. You can share files, email,voice communication (VOIP) or videoconferencing. You could be the one providing a small web server with info you want to share to ham only or to the whole world. You could share a SDR radio or anyother things like that as you want. The main thing about net44 is that it open a network with out the normal barrier that ISP give. You can have a FIXED IP address, there is no tcp/ip port blocked at the ISP level and you can have a single IP to a bunch like 255 (a /24) if you can provide the reason for. You can learn new stuff about networking and you can start your own small 5.8ghz ham network to start using those frequency so we dont loose them. Same for 2.3 ghz. You could be on a HAM only part of the network. Where anyone on that part of the net is a confirmed ham. Or you could also be on a part of the net where you can access the whole internet and back. And could even be on both part of the 44 net if that is your wish. Want a web server, an ftp server, a mail server, a small DNS server ( to learn how DNS work in the big world without breaking anything) name it! your imagination is the only limit ( with budget, time, money, availability of the software and wife accord for more time spent in the shack ;-) ) Is that answering your question? Come back to us if you think of other point you are not sure. Pierre VE2PF ________________________________________ De : 44Net <44net-bounces+petem001=hotmail.com(a)mailman.ampr.org> de la part de Lynn Grant via 44Net <44net(a)mailman.ampr.org> Envoyé : 10 août 2021 16:58 À : 44net General Discussion Cc : Lynn Grant Objet : [44net] Use cases Greetings, I have been a ham for over 50 years (though not recently active), and have been involved with networks for about 20, so I am following the recent discussions with great interest. While I can understand in general terms what might be done with hybrid Internat-ham radio links, I would find it very useful to see examples of what other hams are currently doing with them. Would it be possible to have a few hams do short write-ups on what they are doing, and put them on the ARDC home page? Right now, it seems heavily skewed towards how to set up the networking end of things (which, of course, is very important, and something that hams new to networking could use some help with), with not much attention given to "Why would I want to do this?" Thanks, and 73, Lynn Grant N8AF / V31LK _________________________________________ 44Net mailing list 44Net(a)mailman.ampr.org https://mailman.ampr.org/mailman/listinfo/44net

Like others, we setup our network here (well, the current generation of it that uses WiFi links, tunnels, automatic routing, internet routing etc) in the first place to build a multisite repeater system.   We wanted to place receivers and transmitters all over the country and connect them into a single network using SVXlink. Others want to do the same thing with D-Star, DMR, etc.   And we have ATV repeaters that typically have a lot of equipment (receivers, transcoders, modulators, etc) that is all IP-managable and the operator of the repeater wants to control it from home. So we setup this network and we also installed access points for users, and  encourage then to experiment with e.g. VoIP.  And users also contribute to the redundancy of the network, when they have a WiFi link to some nearby access point and a tunnel over their internet connection to our gateway.  Such connections can become a fallback link to the site when a link to another site fails. Some of the equipment is accessible only from within this network, but some systems are accessible (on their 44.137.x.x IP address) from the internet, e.g. for Echolink connections to repeaters, status websites, WebSDR installations, etc. Rob On 8/10/21 10:58 PM, Lynn Grant via 44Net wrote: