<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Excellent.. thanks all, for your speedy comments and suggestions.<br>I’m afraid it simply didn’t occur to me to look at the WT downloaded file sizes... .as Homer Simpson would say “doh”!<br>73 Ian G3WVG.<br><br>Sent from my phone<br><br><br></span></font><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></div></blockquote><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br>On 4 May 2019, at 14:14, Dez Watson <<a href="mailto:g3ww.dez@gmail.com">g3ww.dez@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>Hi Ian,</span><br><span></span><br><span>You can get an idea of the total amount of RBN data you might receive by checking the RBN archives:</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="http://www.reversebeacon.net/raw_data">http://www.reversebeacon.net/raw_data</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>For instance:</span><br><span></span><br><span>Day 1 of CQWW CW 2018 total filesize of RBN data was 43.6 MB</span><br><span></span><br><span>Day 2 of CQWW CW 2018 total filesize of RBN data was 45.5 MB</span><br><span></span><br><span>I tend to not to have any wired Internet connection (at contest QTH) so always rely on 3G/4G when contesting;</span><br><span></span><br><span>I tend limit web-browsing and if you really want to throttle back the data, you can filter the RBN feed which</span><br><span></span><br><span>you receive e.g. the band(s) you are interested in, only spots heard in your country/zone/continent. There are various</span><br><span></span><br><span>tools and methods to achieve this.</span><br><span></span><br><span>I think the data usage example by Stefan and Andy are what you might typically expect.</span><br><span></span><br><span>73 GL</span><br><span></span><br><span>Dez, G3WW</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>On 04/05/2019 10:40, Stefan von Baltz, DL1IAO wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Hello Ian,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I can confirm Andy‘s observations. The RDXC yielded about 300MB of data via my 3G connection. This included the score board, updating WT files and some minor web surfing after the contest.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>73,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Stefan DL1IAO</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Am 04.05.2019 um 11:16 schrieb Andy Cook, G4PIQ <<a href="mailto:g4piq@btinternet.com">g4piq@btinternet.com</a>>:</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Ian,</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>I ran CQWW CW off a 4G connection a couple of years ago and I think it eat about 600 MB for the contest period. A capture file of the packet logs from Win-Test in 2018 is about 500 MB..</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Andy, G4PIQ</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>-----Original Message-----</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>From: <a href="mailto:support-bounces@win-test.com">support-bounces@win-test.com</a> <<a href="mailto:support-bounces@win-test.com">support-bounces@win-test.com</a>> On Behalf Of G3WVG</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Sent: 04 May 2019 09:20</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>To: Win Test Support <<a href="mailto:support@win-test.com">support@win-test.com</a>></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Subject: [SPAM] [WT-support] Telnet Cluster</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Hi All.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>I realise this is a bit of “how long is a price of string question”, but...</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Please, can anyone tell me very roughly how much data is transferred (over say 48hrs) when the RBN traffic is busy in a contest?</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>The reason I’m asking is that I when I travel from home from contests I often use a 3G router and I’d like to make sure I don’t run out of my data allowance!</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Thank you..73 Ian G3WVG</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Sent from my phone</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Support mailing list</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="mailto:support@win-test.com">support@win-test.com</a></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote 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