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George Simmons

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Assuming I can find things under the dumping of snow we just got, I'll have 6 networks this year. 2 are 500K and four aren't. Is there any reason why I can't (or shouldn't) run all my non-500K networks at 115K?

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All my controllers are the old version and I was having significant lag (still am to some extent) and missed commands, etc.  I changed my two networks to 115K and had significant improvement, no more missed commands.  I say try it, you can always switch them back.

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The best advice we can give about network speed is this:

 

Run the slowest speed that gives you satisfactory results.

 

Slower speeds are more resilient to noisy, long cable lengths or otherwise 'bad' data transmission environments.  However, the slower speed also comes at a cost:  lag/missing commands.

 

Setting the speed higher will help with lag, but may mean you start to see data transmission errors.

 

So in a nutshell:  If it runs OK at 56K, leave it.  Otherwise bump it up to 115K and make sure you are not seeing data transmission errors.

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