Well, I might as well have a go at this. I now connect to clusters via broadband wireless and do have an excellent connection as I am very near the signal source. Previously, I used a dial up connection, a little less reliable. Before that, two meter packet, even less reliable. Now, I can ping the server and I never have found that was loosing any packets. Even now, I will occasionally be disconnected, but not often. I believe that about all disconnects are a result of web congestion, not from any fault in DX4win. When web traffic is heavy, there will be an occasional disconnect, but not enoiugh to be a big problem. I think that if Paul put an automatic ping into Dx4win that the only result would be more traffic on the web. Most of the clusters have an automatic transmission every nine minutes anyway and if there is no web congestion, you will not be disconnected. I'm just thankful that the reliability is so much better than the packet days anyway. 73 BILL-W5VW
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