[arm-allstar] Average Data Usage

[David McGough]

Mike,

The amount of data transmitted is highly dependent on system usage. The
total bandwidth is a combination of the amount of "key down" (repeater
active generating VoIP traffic) time, how many systems are linked to the
node, the CODECs used and the amount of web traffic (Supermon, Allmon2,
etc.).

On a busy hub, averaging perhaps 40 users connected with the ulaw CODEC, 
the amount of traffic can be significant---1TB a month total or more.

For a system with only a single G726 connection, staying active a couple
hours a day and no web traffic, staying under 3GB a month should be 
achievable. If you're running out of bandwidth, try switching to a more 
efficient CODEC. Personally, my high to low order of preference would be: 
ulaw, g726aal2, ilbc, g729, codec2.


73, David KB4FXC



On Thu, 26 Mar 2020, "Mike Sullivan via ARM-allstar" wrote:

> Out of curiosity.. has anyone metered their data usage with ASL? I'm
> working with another radio club to deploy them on Allstar, and we plan on
> setting up a PtP network between towers & connecting them locally, but of
> course that will take some time (and money) to do, so I'm looking at
> ordering a couple used Verizon modems and a prepaid data plan to get all
> three online for now, but if we don't need more than 1-3GB of data that
> would be awesome.
> 
> Mike
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