Did my 1090 system use up 175g of data in 30 days?!?

[rugomol]

There’s something else on this server. The station’s own traffic is small.

Bandwidth usage and air traffic

One would expect some correlation between bandwidth usage and air traffic. I cannot see much of that here. The first picture shows bandwidth usage this morning and the second aircraft seen. (There is a time difference, but look at the common parts.) [image] [image] A friend of mine sees essentially the same traffic, although I usually see a few more a/c. His bandwidth usage seems to be more in line with what you expect: [image] We both have MLAT working. Can someone explain this?

Monitoring network traffic to FlightAware

Thought I’d post a new thread for this, since the System Monitoring one is getting long. One more metric I was interested in monitoring was the amount of traffic specifically going to FlightAware. I noticed that as my site started receiving a lot more traffic based on the antenna/amp/location changes I made, total transmit bandwidth was adding up to about 8+ GB per day - of course the vast majority of that is internal to my network, to my VRS server, etc. However, I wanted the data, so I crea…