[arm-allstar] Portable Node Excessive Data Usage

[Frank McKibben]

I have been working on an Allstar project to set up a portable node in my
RV.  I have been testing with  a Verizon 4G hotspot for connectivity.  The
node seems to be working fine except for one issue that I am trying to wrap
my arms around.  The only device that I  have connected to the hotspot is
the Raspberry Pi Allstar node so I could get some measure of the data usage.
I connected the node to our local repeater system via a hub that the club
has dedicated to AllStar connectivity.  Our local repeater is in a rural
area of Colorado and not what I would characterize as an overly busy
repeater.

 

Over a two day period my hotspot consumed about 400mb of data which seemed
like a lot to me.  I was expecting that the data usage would be pretty
efficient with just the AllStar node using the hotspot and was surprised by
my seemingly high usage.   Since I'm new to the portable node world I
thought Id get some input from other users to see if this is a normal data
usage rate.  Are there some background processes taking place that could be
consuming data?  If so can they be turned off or scaled back ?  

 

N0AFO