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

[Jeff Ackerman]

Richard, are you getting that 20mb of data usage from the freedompop
website for your device?  I had an xipar simple voter setup running on 2
freedompop lte devices and saw that 20mb of data usage periodically, even
with the nodes disconnected from each other.  I never figured out what it
was and have since pulled that equipment from its event test run, but i
suggest you monitor your actual data usage on the PI some how and compare
to what freedompop says you used.

On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 10:16 PM, "Doug Crompton via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> Richard,
>
>  Something does not sound right there. It does a once a minute registration
> but that is measured in sub kilobytes. Are you connected anywhere when this
> is happening? Are you sure the rc.updatenodelist is not running? Either run
> the script to disable it or kill it and delete /tmp/rpt_extnodes and make
> sure it does not come back. The ast cron only runs once a day and is
> minimal.
>
> To see if something else is running that is doing this you can stop
> Asterisk (astdn.sh) and let it go for a period and see what you get? Are
> you sure the measurement is accurate?
>
>
> *73 Doug*
>
> *WA3DSP*
>
> *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 12:32 AM, "Richard Bateman via arm-allstar" <
> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>
> > Hmm.  Well, I disabled the node updates, turned off stats, shut off
> > rc.updatenodefile, and even tried disabling the ast cron job and it still
> > kept downloading 20MB approximately every 4 hours.
> >
> > I didn't actually run the filelookup_onoff.sh script, but skimming
> through
> > it it appears to just enable or disable rc.updatenodelist, which I killed
> > manually to test.
> >
> > Any other ideas? My hotspot is now off and I've lost connection until I
> > fork out some cash to turn it back on, but I'd rather not do that until I
> > have a plan for tracking this down since at 20MB every 4 hours 1GB of
> data
> > will not last long.
> >
> > Richard
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 12:07 PM, Richard Bateman <richard at batemansr.us>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Guys,
> > >
> > > Thanks for the info; I'm not (currently) linking the repeater to
> > anything,
> > > but it's good to know that g.729 is available -- I didn't realize that.
> > > I've disabled all of those things as well as the statspost stuff, so
> > we'll
> > > just have to see if that fixes the issue :-/
> > >
> > > Thanks for all the info, I'll let you know what I find.
> > >
> > > Richard
> > >
> >
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Jeff Ackerman
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