[Dxspider-support] The RBN interface is here...

[Rene Olsen]

Hi Dirk.

Thanks for the info.

I also looked at the calculations you did about the bw useage of the RBN feed itself. If there 
is a lot of spider clusters connecting, they will have to deliver a lot of data.

If 200+ spider nodes connects to the raw RBN feeds, maybe they will have to do some 
filtering themselves, or simply limit the number of users on there.

Is there any reason why every single spider node should receive the raw RBN data?

Would it maybe be possible to create some main "hubs", that will act as RBN feed to other 
nodes? Maybe its a stupid idea, but for me who isn't able to handle the raw RBN feed, it 
might be a good option to still deliver good RBN spots to my users.

Those "hubs" should receive the raw RBN feeds, and then do the filtering and pass the 
filtered data on to X number of rbn enabled spider nodes.

Just a thought.

As you say yourself, 96% of the raw data is "useless", but of course needed to pick out the 
good spots.

Vy 73 de René / OZ1LQH


On 13 Jul 2020 at 0:13, Dirk Koopman wrote:

> René
> 
> Don't forget that it isn't compulsory to connect to the RBN. There are 
> lot's of other improvements under the hood. And this is the 
> "development" branch where all the new things happen.
> 
> 73 Dirk G1TLH
> 
> On 12/07/2020 21:16, Rene Olsen wrote:
> > Hi Dirk.
> >
> > Yes, I think that I will upgrade to mojo branch no matter what.
> >
> > I am still having doubts about the RBN thing though. As I wrote earlier I am on a limited plan,
> > which means I pay a very low price per month. I am only allowed 1 TB of data a month.
> >
> > I was logged on the the RBN network port 7000, and it said that the average at that time was
> > 17000 spots an hour. And that is probably at the low end when contests are there. This is a
> > normal sunday evening without any contests (that I am aware of).
> >
> > 17000 spots an hour, I count a spot as 80 bytes, means that just with that I will be using
> > around 1 TB of data in 30 days. The next plan at my provider is a lot more money, so guess I
> > am bowing out on the RBN stuff. Unless my calculations are way off.
> >
> > I guess in busy contest weekends the number can increase to 50000 spots an hour or more.
> >
> > Vy 73 de René / OZ1LQH
> >
> >
>