SmartLink Data Useage

Hi Dave

There are a number of discussions in the forum regarding it. However, it is hugely variable based on your personal settings.

As an example, to just use the Radio, it can vary from as little as 300kb/sec to 1.6mb/sec depending on the settings of your personal waterfall and panadapter. This is on the upload from the radio to the end user.

If you start to add DAX audio streams, it does increase even more.

The Meters on the TGXL and PGXL do add some more data, but it is trivial when compared to the WaterFall/Panadapter/DAX data.

If you are a user on a metered connection, you want to make sure you do the following:

• Panadapter FPS set to minimum (all the way to the left)
• Waterfall RATE set to minimum (all the way to the left)
• No DAX - this can consume a lot of upstream data. Consider using a PC local to the radio for digital modes and then a Remote Desktop Tool to connect to it for digital modes. This will give you a much more reliable experience. https://www.flexradio.com/videos/hf-remote-why-a-pc-at-the-remote-end/

Good quality routers give you the ability to monitor data flow from specific IP addresses (such as the radio).

The short story is that if you budget a rate of about 1.5mb/sec. That is about 187KBytes/dec.

If my math is correct (questionable :) ), 187KB/sec and with 3600 seconds in an hour would burn through about 675MB in 1 hour.

If you dial it down to 300kb/sec you would use up about 90MB of your data cap.

Again, I would ask those that play with these numbers all the time to double-check my math.

I hope that helps a bit.

73

Yes, your usage will be a LOT higher.

You have to consider that Panadapter and the Waterfall is actually a movie that you are constantly playing as you said.

73