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

Wow, that’s a lotta data.

Thanks for checking in.

J

I think notepad is adding a .txt file extention that I haven’t worked out a solution for yet.

just add quotation marks around the filename in Notepad and it won’t add the extension. ie. “ssh”

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What did you do to block access? Did you change permissions on the file? My system shows permissions: -rw-r–r-- 1 dump1090 nogroup 21840 Oct 31 02:39 aircraft.json

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No, I did it through lighttpd

sudo nano /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

And I added these lines:

# deny access to /aircraft.json in tar1090/data
$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/tar1090/data/" {
     url.access-deny = ("aircraft.json")
}

Then restart lighttpd

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The lighttpd service doesn’t start anymore with those lines added.
Missing a } at the end.

Anyway, the net usage increased after adding the lines and restarting. Average before was like 8.7kB/sec now I am getting like 14kB/sec:

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My data usage, for 120-150 planes at peak time, is about 750 MB/day.
22 GB/month.

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Yes, sorry. I’ve added it.

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During my peak months where i had feeds also to Radarbox and Opensky there were up to 3 GB a day which end up in around 90GB per month while having >3000 Aircraft registered per day.

Especially Opensky does not compress or combine data and therefore causes a high usage. I stopped these two and the traffic is down to 30 GB per Month

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In US there is barely any MLAT, majority (99% in my case) switched to ADS-B, except some military planes. Stopping MLAT reduces enormously the data usage, if somebody needs that.
My example:

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SoNic,

Thanks a ton for chiming in!! After reading your last post, I disabled 1090 MLAT and believe that may have been my culprit.

J

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