Of course if W3LPL stopped his highly unpopular (outside US at least) SPAMMING with automated skimmer spots then the traffic would be a lot less!
Frank really is making himself unpopular and will be one to avoid calling in contests for me 73 Fred A65BD ----- Original Message ----- From: "Neal Campbell" <[email protected]> To: "Jack" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 5:04 PM Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Usage question for packet sysops? > > Hi Jack, > > Based on 44000 spots generated during the ARRL SSB Contest, here are some > assuptions: > 1, Weekend spot trattic of 44K (which is way high, for instance CQWW RTTY > contest had 30K) > 2. Spots are a maximum of 80 characters so I took an average of 40 > characters > 3. The total of week spots is the weekend spot load plus half of the > weekend > spots (again quite conservative) > > Given these assimptions, there are a total of 66000 spots at a total > character count of 2.6MB. With 4.3 weeks a month thats a monthly load of > 11.26MB, Yearly load is 135.2 MB > > Not such a factor for internet usage I hope? > 73 > Neal Campbell > Abroham Neal Software > www.abrohamnealsoftware.com > (540) 645 5394 NEW PHONE NUMBER > > Amateur Radio: K3NC > Blog: http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/ > DXBase bug reports: email to [email protected] > Abroham Neal forums: http:/www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/community/ > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Jack <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm curious if any sysops track the amount of data that is sent to an >> individual subscriber to their internet cluster. If we assumed a full >> time >> connection during the most busy month, probably in months of large >> contests, >> how much data would typically be sent to a suscriber? >> >> My ISP announced that they are going to impose data usage limits and I'm >> just wondering what internet cluster usage might contribute to my overall >> data usage. >> >> Thanks >> Jack >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Dxbase mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
