SmartLink service needs to be more robust

Steve K9ZW

K2KXK

When I first experienced the outage and thought about it I thought, well no big deal and like some have commented, this is a hobby and a little potential inconvenient is nothing important.  However, after reflecting a little more, I have slightly changed my views.  Although ham radio is primarily a hobby and not a necessity, there are times when it is critical for the community.  My club for example has a very active RACES Group and is a significant component of the county emergency services plan.  It occurred to me that remote access to Flex equipment could be very important in an emergency.  It is something that communities around the world depend on.  Just a thought that Flex may want to factor into their approach for remote access and support.

Mike-VA3MW

Thanks guys for all your opinions.  I know your thoughts will be reviewed.

One last thing, and that is if your remote operation is mission critical for what every reason, you do need to ensure that you personally limit your single points of failures.  Every remote operator goes through this.   In this case, having a Softether VPN in place might not be a bad Plan B.

Again, thanks for all your comments.

Mike