[EAS] Single entry point

[Harold Price]

Tom,

The ENDEC should not add much of a load to the cable modem.

Remove the nws server from your settings, and see if your cable 
connection returns to normal.

That said, we don't yet support the NWS atom feed for CAP 1.1 
alerts.  We will shortly.

We do plan to support the NWS CAP 1.1, because I don't think they are 
going to 1.2 soon.  I could be wrong on that, but we will support it.

If you set the poll time even as low as 3 seconds, using the WV feed 
you mentioned, that is a load of about 15kbits/sec.  There were two 
active alerts in WV when I checked.  Even that, with polling set too 
fast, and the NWS's large ATOM digest (they send a lot of 
information) should not affect a broadband connection.

The NWS site says its feed is updated about every two minutes, so if 
you poll once per minute, you would have an average load of 0.7k/sec.

Send your settings file before you remove the NWS cap server to me at 
hprice at sagealertingsystems.com and I'll see if something odd is going on.

Harold

At 04:07 PM 5/19/2011, Tom Taggart wrote:
>Since hooking up our Sage unit to our local network it seems
>like our broadband (cable) connection has slowed to a crawl.
>  Can't determine either way whether it's the Sage or just a
>coincidence.
>
>Unless we get an entirely separate cable drop we're stuck.
>No DSL at our location. We have two different locations and
>are constantly shipping logs and audio back and forth over
>the internet.
>
>Another question: are there any CAP alerts being sent out? I
>know some states already are using the system but this won't
>happen locally (Ohio/WV) for a while.
>NWS claims they have something but I've never seen anything
>come through.  Either I have the Sage misconfigured or the
>NWS format is not compatible. Here's one of the links I
>used:
>
>alerts.weather.gov/cap/wv.atom
>
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