[arm-allstar] data usage on node w/ LTE hotspot

[Doug Crompton]

What Steve mentions is true but he is using the beta DNA lookup which has
not been deployed to all yet. So what he is saying and the file download
does NOT apply until this is released to all.

On that note once DNS lookuip is released to all turning off rpt_extnodes
file download, status posting and selecting a lower bandwidth
codec will greatly reduce data usage when necessary.

The rpt_extnodes file downloads alone cause an astounding combined download
usage of  ​32,400,000,000 bytes or 32.4 terabytes transferred
 daily based on each node updating 144 times a day, file size 150K, number
of active nodes 1500.


*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

*http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*



On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 12:22 PM, "Steve Agee via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> If it is a private node number then you can comment out the 2 statpost
> lines near the bottom of the node stanza, and you can turn off the download
> of the rpt_extnodes file every ten minutes. You can also turn these off if
> you are using a public node along with node_lookup_method=dns. You can
> download a script to do this as follows:
>
> cd /root
> wget https://hamvoip.org/downloads/filelookup_onoff.sh
> chmod 750 filelookup_onoff.sh
>  ./filelookup_onoff.sh
>
> N5ZUA
>
> On 12/3/2017 9:52 AM, "Richard Bateman via arm-allstar" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a node which lives on a mountaintop a 10K feet that I've put an LTE
>> modem on so I can remote control it; I'm trying to get by with the
>> freedompop free 200MB mode, but it seems to be downloading approximately
>> 20MB of data multiple times per day; nothing I have installed should be
>> doing that.
>>
>> Is there anything installed in the default hamvoip install that might be
>> causing that?
>>
>> Richard
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