Bandwidth usage?

tarbat · May 12, 2009, 09:28:48 AM

Quote from: malc41 on May 12, 2009, 09:26:43 AM
Where is most of the data coming from?

Its the download of >1000 aircraft positions/etc. every 30 seconds.

malc41 · May 12, 2009, 09:44:54 AM

But that is only if you are connected to the network and downloading info. I think the origional message was refering to supplying info to the network?

Brimon · May 12, 2009, 10:52:30 AM

Quote from: malc41 on May 12, 2009, 09:44:54 AM
But that is only if you are connected to the network and downloading info. I think the origional message was refering to supplying info to the network?

malc, as you know I am new to the Radarbox & as such will ask stoopid questions:).
If I left the Radarbox on with the network connected, I was under the impression that I would have no option but to upload & download (with the exception of pictures) everything.Am I wrong,can I turn off other aspects?

tarbat · May 12, 2009, 11:28:34 AM

You can turn off the network download, and you will still be uploading your local aircraft to the Airnav network.

WAL 2T · May 12, 2009, 11:31:34 AM

Further observations using DU meter for the past hour. The PC is just running RB and an instance of Outlook Web Access occasionally polling my work mailbox.

Hourly total is 18.6MB with approx 1100 network flights at present

Extrapolate for the day: 446MB

For the week: 3.1GB

And the month: 12.5GB

It's worth noting that as the number of network flights drops off considerably during the late evening and wee, small hours you could treat that estimate as worst case scenario.

daveg4otu · May 12, 2009, 11:37:13 AM

Since reading this I have run a monitoring app(BW Monitor) for 2 hours....

ANRB is running
Hardware traffic only .
Average "My Flights" 55-65 showing
Photos turned OFF.
Winsend is running uploading to Libhomeradar.
IE is running one or two pages.

The figures....

2 hours
Downstream was 39.89MB
Upstream 6.01MB

Taking that and turning it into 24hrs/30days per month and you get a ballpark figure of 14GB Down.....

But...

The traffic levels(and consequently the up/down levels ) are generally going to be far less for the period from 8PM- 8AM(local)...so IMO a figure (under the conditions above) of 10-12 GBs would probably cover it.

Location is Torquay.
5miles N of BHD.

EDIT: I run twin monitors....hence IE in use at the same time.

malc41 · May 12, 2009, 12:02:42 PM

Still a fair slice of your bandwidth if you have a restricted to monthly limits

tarbat · May 12, 2009, 12:13:50 PM

Quote from: malc41 on May 12, 2009, 12:02:42 PMStill a fair slice of your bandwidth if you have a restricted to monthly limits

In which case, please support my feature request to have the option to limit downloads to just those aircraft that would be visible on the current map view. See http://www.airnavsystems.com/forum/index.php?topic=507

OKC-Steve · May 12, 2009, 12:17:49 PM

Quote from: AirNav Support on May 12, 2009, 08:21:10 AM
It is fixed :) Look out for it soon.

1st Quarter 2010?

AirNav Support · May 12, 2009, 12:34:04 PM

No, a test version is already out to a few members. Please read the sticky as well regarding the version on the forum.

AirNav Development · May 12, 2009, 06:20:13 PM

We can confirm that the upload is 5% of the download rates - the upload can be easily maintained with a dial-up connection.

The software has a way of predicting which messages are relevant for upload: for example an aircraft can transmit 60 ADS-B message per minute. The software will only upload one with the relevant data and when it finds the data useful.