[MarkoRamius1086]

The thing that keeps getting me is the fact that in all of the regionals I have been to, all of the feeds I have seen of champs, all the issues that come forward in the latter parts of the competition are robot issues... our troubleshooting at NC proved that! However, early in the game at any of them there are things that needed working out with the FMS... minor quirks.

We are talking about top notch teams here, NASA supported and more! Teams that won nearly every single match, teams that know what they are doing, enough to make it to Einstien in the first place!

In the hundreds, hundreds of matches that FIRST and this FMS system and the D-Links have gone through for all of FIRST... why was this problem not more common? I am nearly positive from the facts before me (what few they may be) that the D-Link is not to blame here. Something on Einstien's hardware had to be off or not optimized.

The only other thing that occurred to me is the correct setup of the routers. They went from one field to another, the same as going from our workshops to competition, or the practice field. If the routers were not configured correctly we would have the same issue.

What it is, I do not know. I am happy that the D-Link/FMS system works as reliably as I have seen it work in the past year... I saw very few issues at VA and NC... but I am severly dissapointed to hear that the Einstien hardware was never even tested (though I would love to be told otherwise).

Sincerely,
Petrie