mitaux8030
Silent Key
I've been comparing System Scans - plain Wide Area (by manually defined neighbours) versus Proscan (dynamic) versus Proscan dynamic plus manually defined neighbours.
I've observed a few quirks, and wondering if there are any 'fixes' or am I going about achieving a result the wrong way?
First, it appears possible to turn off proscan with SYSC (system scan on/off) so long as there is no Wide Area neighbours manually defined. But SYSC doesn't appear to turn off plain old Wide Area scan, or turn off proscan with manually defined neighbours. I actually suspect that if you manually define neighbours under System Setup "systems being scanned" this automatically enables Wide Area scanning, and if you have proscan turned on, a form of Wide Area scanning is still working in the background behind proscan.
How did I arrive at that conclusion? Well sometimes I found that proscan (dynamic) with no neighbours manually defined would get 'stuck' in CC Scan and not select a new system, even though one or more of the known neighbours would have provided good service. If I then kept the settings exactly the same, just adding in manually defined neighbours to each system, the process would be 100% reliable in finding a new system to camp on - perhaps not always the best serving system, but at least it wouldn't sit in limbo at CC Scan. Its almost as if the proscan process sometimes fails to find an acceptable neighbour, and then the radio defaults to WA scanning the manual neighbour list (with no proscan intelligence).
So, first bug: SYSC appears to turn off proscan fine, but not Wide Area scan. Thats rather annoying.
And second bug: proscan can sometimes get stuck in limbo with CC Scan, and not find a system to camp on, despite good neighbours being present.
Are these just the nature of the beast, known bugs, or is there something that I'm missing here?
I've observed a few quirks, and wondering if there are any 'fixes' or am I going about achieving a result the wrong way?
First, it appears possible to turn off proscan with SYSC (system scan on/off) so long as there is no Wide Area neighbours manually defined. But SYSC doesn't appear to turn off plain old Wide Area scan, or turn off proscan with manually defined neighbours. I actually suspect that if you manually define neighbours under System Setup "systems being scanned" this automatically enables Wide Area scanning, and if you have proscan turned on, a form of Wide Area scanning is still working in the background behind proscan.
How did I arrive at that conclusion? Well sometimes I found that proscan (dynamic) with no neighbours manually defined would get 'stuck' in CC Scan and not select a new system, even though one or more of the known neighbours would have provided good service. If I then kept the settings exactly the same, just adding in manually defined neighbours to each system, the process would be 100% reliable in finding a new system to camp on - perhaps not always the best serving system, but at least it wouldn't sit in limbo at CC Scan. Its almost as if the proscan process sometimes fails to find an acceptable neighbour, and then the radio defaults to WA scanning the manual neighbour list (with no proscan intelligence).
So, first bug: SYSC appears to turn off proscan fine, but not Wide Area scan. Thats rather annoying.
And second bug: proscan can sometimes get stuck in limbo with CC Scan, and not find a system to camp on, despite good neighbours being present.
Are these just the nature of the beast, known bugs, or is there something that I'm missing here?