Provide Feed on Satellite Internet

[rnfuller]

I am thinking about providing a feed for my county, but I am on Hughesnet Satellite Internet. We have a Fair Access Policy, that limits the usage, and I do not want to trigger the FAP.

Could anyone give me some idea as to what the average size of upload and download data over a period of say 1 hour?

Thanks
Randy

 

[scannerfreak]

From the Live Audio Wiki

Providing a scanner feed will use approximately 5GB of bandwidth per month.

You can do the math to get a rough hourly data average.

Hope this helps

 

[rnfuller]

Thanks! Just what I needed to know.

Randy

 

[c5corvette]

One feed at 16kbps works out to the 5GB per month. I tried this on a wireless card - same type limitations prohibited a wireless feed. In hundreds of tests I ran, every 9 minutes used up about 1MB. See screenshot...

 

[GTR8000]

1 hour @ 16 kbit/s = 6.9 MB of upload bandwidth used

That works out to 165.6 in a 24 hour period, or as stated, approximately 5 GB in a 31 day month

 

[N4RDX]

feed

I dont think Hughes Net has any problems with upload it is the download is where the FAP comes into play At least on the plan i am on for like $125/mo.

 

[rnfuller]

I dont think Hughes Net has any problems with upload it is the download is where the FAP comes into play At least on the plan i am on for like $125/mo.

N4RDX you are correct! I don't know why I did not think of that!, so I guess now the question is would the upload speed of around 128K support a decent feed. I need to check the WIKI.

Thanks
Randy