Any idea of the estimated Mb bandwidth consumed per month at 3 second update interval?
Best wishes
gk
I figure it at 18mb per day (every 3 sec clientraw.txt, every minute clientrawextra.txt, every day the rest). Depends on structure of html files, pictures, etc.
Works out to about 547mb per month???
Now I know why I have my webserver at home
:lol: :lol:
The clienraw file is currently about 500 Bytes and the clientrawextra is about 3KB so you can calculate the bandwidth from that based upon your chosen upload rate of clientraw and an upload rate of 10 minutes for the clientrawextra.
Julian
I do not use WDL so do not upload clientraw files, but I worked out from what I do upload that if I did use WDL I would be uploading approx 1700MB per month in total !!! That is a bit of a shock really!
This is based on 15 minute data uploads of webpages and images, but I haven’t included the daily averages/extreme or hourly speech file upload.
most broadband plans have arorund 2Gb limits as a starting point now, yes?
so these figures are less than that, but then you have to add in your own browsing
you can reduce the upload freq
my broadband setup, i think they didnt hook me in properly and they are not monitiring my useage (i cant view the online useage, its says user no found), LOL
Are you concerned about the bandwidth on your (broadband?) connection? Or the bandwidth for a webhost? At least one webhost I use seems to only count webserved bandwith and not ftp upload in the monthly numbers :?
the problem with the WDL is that people want more and more and more
and I keep saying we need to draw the line in the sand somehwere
i seee Julian is now saying no to some things
i was told that uploads count too…(in my plan)
i am going to change wireless provider soon, now that a cheaper on is available, which is faster for uploads (its same speed upload as download…so I should get a upload speed of 1 gig!)
There are some in the UK with a 1GB cap. Mine is unlimited up or dowload 
I won’t have real stats for another month since I just started up a couple weeks ago and I’m still playing and setting things up… However so far this month, the usage was a lot less than I thought.
I’ve got a domain with all the weather stuff on it hosted remotely. While the main page is elsewhere, all the uploads and weather stuff itself is on the remote site.
For little more than 1/2 of October I have…
Domain
graphics.got-there.com 421.40 Meg
weather.got-there.com 242.24 Meg
Total sucessfull transfers 251,584
I’ve got more bandwidth being used for the graphics site than the weather site and that includes ftp uploads and web downloads.
With an allowance of up to 5gb a month… there won’t be a problem at all. (Site costs $50 a year) bumping up to 10gb a month cost little more.
As for uploads… I am currently uploading the weather pages once every 10 minutes with client*.txt files once a minute.
I don’t think that anything more frequent than once a minute is really going to be much value for me.
The lighting page we host for example, updates once every 15 minutes. For most of the year, that is way overkill since there is nothing going on. Even with moderate lightning activity, it is often enough to give the visitor an idea of what is taking place.
There are only a few times during a year where something more often like every 5 minutes…would make any sense for our purposes.
Even then it is hard to pin point where you are on the map so knowing to within a 60 seconds if a strike came near you would be easier to tell from the sound than the page itself.
Nexstorms maps for example only appear to have detail of rivers and county lines. In the West, counties are many times 30-40 times larger than in the East. Where I am, Maricopa could fit 30-40 Eastern counties inside of it. So the amount of detail you have to attempt to decern where you are in relationship to the reported strike is vauge at best.
My connection at my home office (residential) is Cox.net. 4mb down and 500k up. No caps on total bandwidth used.
I’m with CCLHosting with a 4GB bandwidth limit each month and 100MB storage.
I have/had a very extensive website with almost all Brian’s charts, graphs and even the past 5 minute animated graph of the console. Throw in a half dozen other pic files such as hurricanes, daily fronts etc. and the most I ever had was 3.1GB. I now have consolidated my site and added WD live (10 second updates) so my FTP stats are rising since mid September but my overall web bandwidth is down.
The 1st chart is total web statistics and the 2nd is just ftp stats.
Thanks very much fr the replies everyone… very informative!
I am connected to the net via 2 way satellite and running my home on solar. My satellite plan is 1gb / month with Telstra.
Running my own web server is the most logical choice as I have a fixed IP, however… my fixed IP site is not visible to many internet users for some reason that the service provider cannot answer satisfactorily. Hence, I am contemplating going back to a web hosted solution, but fear my 1gb/month bandwidth allocation will be subsumed (only running WDL updates and not WD html updates online at this point).
Add to this the idea of including a high resolution web cam and my data allocation is probably gone (based on above posts).
Can any of you guys actually see my home served WDL site at http://144.135.54.253/ or am I really alone in cyberspace?
You may just wanna enter 144.135.54.253 and hit enter to get it up?
If a good number can see this site, I’ll stop panicking and start looking at my friend’s computers as the culprit and not the service provider or me for that matter.
Feedback would be really appreciated… you can email me if you don’t wanna user this thread at [email protected]
Many thanks and WD + WDL rocks!!!
Greg Kernaghan
No problem here on the east coast via cable. Nice view.
Can I reserve one of those chairs ?
Comes up a little slow, but it is visible and looks nice.
Nope, not as of oct 21, 9:05 GMT+1. Ping gives no response. Might be a DNS problem with your provider
The DNS is fine, resolves quickly… but there is no route to host from the five main different server networks I have access to.
DNStools reports the same…
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=144.135.54.253
I suspect that they are not broadcasting their routes to all parties or have some sort of problem with routing.
The route breaks at the sat2way1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.4.150] router with a destination unreachable error (No Host).
A trace from my house is typical of the problem.
Target Name: c253.54.135.144.satellite.bigpond.com
IP: 144.135.54.253
Date/Time: 10/21/2004 12:56:48 AM to 10/21/2004 12:58:18 AM
1 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms router.home.kev [192.168.1.1]
2 12 ms 12 ms 12 ms 14 ms 9 ms 14 ms 13 ms 13 ms 11 ms 24 ms [10.52.64.1]
3 18 ms 16 ms 10 ms 12 ms 12 ms 21 ms 11 ms 15 ms 15 ms 11 ms ip68-2-2-65.ph.ph.cox.net [68.2.2.65]
4 13 ms 11 ms 14 ms 11 ms 14 ms 14 ms 16 ms 37 ms 11 ms 10 ms ip68-2-0-62.ph.ph.cox.net [68.2.0.62]
5 110 ms 16 ms 14 ms 16 ms 16 ms 11 ms 12 ms 11 ms 38 ms 14 ms chnddsrc01-gew0304.rd.ph.cox.net [68.2.14.9]
6 14 ms 12 ms 16 ms 76 ms 27 ms 38 ms 14 ms 14 ms 29 ms 14 ms chndbbrc01-pos0101.rd.ph.cox.net [68.1.0.164]
7 52 ms 32 ms 23 ms 23 ms 31 ms 209 ms 34 ms 23 ms 23 ms 22 ms lvxxbbrc01-pos0103.rd.lv.cox.net [68.1.0.88]
8 43 ms 40 ms 40 ms 40 ms 43 ms 41 ms 40 ms 58 ms 41 ms 40 ms paltbbrj01-pos010000.r2.pt.cox.net [68.1.0.95]
9 40 ms 41 ms 44 ms 37 ms 42 ms 40 ms 39 ms 48 ms 37 ms 41 ms paix-hkt.hkt.net [198.32.176.64]
10 37 ms 38 ms 37 ms 39 ms 36 ms 38 ms 38 ms 38 ms 42 ms 39 ms i-11-0.paix-core01.net.reach.com [202.84.251.21]
11 207 ms 194 ms 191 ms 193 ms 193 ms 193 ms 194 ms 197 ms 193 ms 197 ms i-9-0.syd-core03.net.reach.com [202.84.249.85]
12 197 ms 198 ms 194 ms 201 ms 199 ms 197 ms 194 ms 197 ms 367 ms 197 ms GigabitEthernet5-0.oxf-core1.Sydney.telstra.net [203.50.13.33]
13 210 ms 203 ms 206 ms 202 ms 342 ms 202 ms 200 ms 200 ms 203 ms 197 ms 10GigabitEthernet13-0.chw-core2.Sydney.telstra.net [203.50.6.1]
14 210 ms 209 ms 209 ms 209 ms 210 ms 211 ms 210 ms 211 ms 210 ms 222 ms Pos-Channel1.win-core1.Melbourne.telstra.net [203.50.6.14]
15 225 ms 235 ms 225 ms 228 ms 269 ms 223 ms 242 ms 240 ms 229 ms 228 ms FastEthernet0-0-0.lon17.Melbourne.telstra.net [203.50.79.27]
16 232 ms 227 ms 221 ms 219 ms 225 ms 220 ms 229 ms 232 ms 221 ms 220 ms sat2way1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.4.150]
NO ROUTE TO HOST
Rather than attempting to contact your normal Technical support. On issues like this is is sometimes better to try to talk to the NOC center itself to get a resolution. They typically don’t like talking to end users, but if you can make yourself sound like a network tech or have a network administrator of a site that can’t get to you contact them, they are in a much better position to know what the problem is and get it fixed.
That has always been the case with most regional ISPs around here like COX and most of the other cable operators.
I would try an email to [email protected]
I can always have one of our network techs take a shot at it if you like.
Gee… I’m swamped here???
Anything you cado to jelp would be fantastic (network techs et al).
Best wishes
gk
If you have your WebSite hosted and have access to CPanel or some other management script, you should be able to login and check tour stats. Depending on how detailed they are (or are not) you may be able to decipher them enough to achieve a basic answer. Keep in mind that many are written by Geeks for Geeks. 
new i have added: if you are using wd’s ftpupd.exe
you see the total bytes transfered now under view, ftp log
(in a new 10.18i ready soon)
but i need to have the clientrawrealtimeftp.exe add to that monthly total too././///
The implementation of data transfer logging is really appreciated… many thanks.
Also thanks to the reports back about access visibility of my fixed IP http://144.135.54.253/ from everyone who helped out there (deck chairs are comfy).
best wishes
gk
p.s. hotly anticipating WDL next release (Brian & Julian… you guys amaze me - thanks so very much)
Im still optimizing but I’m hapy using the live edition, doing so I use this for my realtime readings and now I’m calculating what I will and what not by using the overide settings and update times.
realtime = update every 10sec => 1kb upload
major file (extraraw) => every 10 min => 3k
= 378k/h or 8.86MB/day or 269.99MB/month
trends &n weatrherinfo = each hour or depending …
148k/h = 3.47MB/day or 105.58MB/month
total = 375.57MB/month
& still optimizing 