<html><head><style type='text/css'>body { font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; }p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div align="left"><font size="2">Same here.<br><br>Unfortunately "more than half of probes failed" means you won't get new probes as an ambassador, according to</font><font size="2"> the</font><font size="2"> distribution policy of Atlas. Experience shows that some probes CANNOT be fixed following the troubleshooting procedures along with using new USB sticks, even on UPS power and backup internet links. Keeping them running is trickier than it seemed and we can't push our hosts to that extent all the time. That's why number of active probes barely exceeds 10k, despite the fact so many of them given out</font><font size="2"> (around 40k I guess)</font><font size="2">, plus efforts & resources put to keep them up & running all these years.<br><br>Good developers of Atlas must seriously consider reviewing codes and algorithms, especially on the probe side of the deal (e.g. by limiting number of read/writes over memory sticks by mem cache & better utilization of online connection whenever possible</font><font size="2">, etc)<br><br></font></div>Jonathan Brewer wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin-left: 8px; padding-left: 8px; border-left: 1px solid lightgrey">
<div><div dir="auto">With so many failures due to USB issues, it’s hard to accurately assign blame for distributed probes that never come online.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">To get the 40+ probes I distributed in the Pacific Islands online I sent hosts USB chargers, called and emailed, and reminded until they were plugged in - but then more than half failed.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Sat, 31 Mar 2018 at 12:48, Philip Paeps <<a href="mailto:philip@trouble.is">philip@trouble.is</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I had a conversation with a new probe host who was wondering how many of<br>
the probes I hand out "walk off" never to be seen again.<br>
<br>
Sadly, that's quite a lot of them in my case. I guess I need to find<br>
conferences with more reliable attendees?<br>
<br>
People promise to plug them in but then they get distracted. Or they<br>
move and the probes end up in boxes.<br>
<br>
How do other ambassadors twist their hosts' arms into actually plugging<br>
in probes? (And keeping them plugged in!)<br>
<br>
Philip<br></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><br><div class="x-axi-signature" style="; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Source Sans Pro;"><div align="left">Regards,<br>M. Tajbakhsh<br>Lecturer, Advisor, Network & Security Expert.<br></div></div></body></html>