Bandwidth usage?

Brimon · May 11, 2009, 11:48:13 AM

I leave my PC on 24/7 (The tree-huggers will love me) but don't leave the Radarbox on.To ensure the network gets the additional coverage I thought about leaving the radarbox on.
One question though what is the typical bandwidth useage of Radarbox?

I have a reasonable download allowance every month,but am quite a heavy user.
I would disable the download pictures if that would make a difference.

malc41 · May 11, 2009, 11:51:43 AM

Brimon

I would imagine as the data is in a text format very little, as you have turned of the photo. They tend to be the real file size grabbers.

WAL 2T · May 11, 2009, 12:05:30 PM

The pictures are only thumbnails. I've just looked at my photos folder and it's only 100MB. That's after more than 12 months of use so on a day to day basis the photo downloads are hardly likely to make a dent in usage.

malc41 · May 11, 2009, 12:10:55 PM

Chris

Yes absolutely right, I assumed they would be bigger that that, so on the whole there is not a great amount being downloaded?

Brimon · May 11, 2009, 12:19:07 PM

Thanks for the info all.In the interests of fellow networkers I will try leaving it on & see how I get on.

malc41 · May 11, 2009, 12:20:42 PM

With all the 'unlimited downloads???' that the broadband companies offer, surely its not a problem :-)

WAL 2T · May 11, 2009, 12:52:26 PM

I suppose you could check the network overhead reasonably accurately using DU Meter with just the RB program running at the time. Here, the cable modem lights flicker for a second every 30 secs as the network updates. I'd hazard a guess that the overall usage in a 24 hour period is negligible in the great scheme of things.

Unlimited downloads provided that they're during a time when most people are in bed ;)

malc41 · May 11, 2009, 12:54:20 PM

You have time to sleep with all this activity going on? ;-)

tarbat · May 12, 2009, 07:17:41 AM

Bandwidth was discussed last year, and my conclusion was that a 24x7 PC running RB will consume about 18GB per month.

See http://www.airnavsystems.com/forum/index.php?topic=507.msg9105#msg9105

Brimon · May 12, 2009, 07:43:57 AM

Thanks tarbat. Obviously,like everyone here probably, I would like to give network users the benefit of additional cover by leaving it on 24/7 but ,if the figures are right, 18GB per month is a hefty hit on bandwidth.
I will monitor it for a couple of days & decide.In the meantime thanks again.

AirNav Support · May 12, 2009, 07:45:28 AM

Let me just confirm, you can still share data with having the network download switched off.

Sharing bandwith depends on the amount of aircraft you have but at its max it won't upload anything more than 800mb per month in busy conditions.

Deadcalm · May 12, 2009, 08:11:58 AM

Be wary of turning off photos - as I recall there is an issue with turning off the downloading photos option affecting receipt of network traffic. Maybe Airnav could confirm that? I gather it's a known issue and is one of the fixes in the next version.

Have a look at: http://www.airnavsystems.com/forum/index.php?topic=1908.msg15302#msg15302

DC

AirNav Support · May 12, 2009, 08:21:10 AM

It is fixed :) Look out for it soon.

tarbat · May 12, 2009, 09:17:22 AM

Quote from: Brimon on May 12, 2009, 07:43:57 AMThanks tarbat. Obviously,like everyone here probably, I would like to give network users the benefit of additional cover by leaving it on 24/7 but ,if the figures are right, 18GB per month is a hefty hit on bandwidth.

That 18GB per month was for DOWNLOAD and UPLOAD. I guess the UPLOAD would be a lot less, but would really depend on the number of aircraft being uploaded to the Airnav servers. I'm in a very light traffic area, so my upload is probably small.

malc41 · May 12, 2009, 09:26:43 AM

Still seems a large download/month.

Where is most of the data coming from?