IoBridge call home...

[wwtolman]

Greetings,
I was wondering how often the IoBridge calls home to the server?
I'm developing a project to monitor a remote location that receives its Internet via Satellite.
Bandwidth usages is an issue and I need to know for my estimates.
thanks!
-wes

[jason]

There is an exchange of "pings" about every 30 seconds.  Although the size of the packets are very small.  I'm not sure about actual numbers.  Let me set up a test in the lab and I'll see how much bandwidth is used over an hour.

[wwtolman]

Thanks, I would be interested in your results.
is that 'ping' user setable, like once an hour?

[jason]

In one hour 83 kilobytes were transferred.

The ping time isn't configurable. 

[wwtolman]

Thanks for the data, I think that will be workable.

[Scienkoptic]

I had an iobridge hooked up to a Hughesnet satellite network. I can say that it worked quite well.

On the other hand, when I tried to use a eyefi card on the same network, it was rejected because " too many proxies..."

I'd sure love to see a iobridge with a wireless network adapter built in!

It would sure reduce the parts count on a project I'm currently working on.

[zero*gx]

I just did the math for day/month/year: (in SI values)

day: 1.9 mb
month: 59.76 mb
year: .72 gb

[jason]

year: .72 gb

... makes it seems like a lot when you put it like that

[zero*gx]

it does... but then i realized, that much bandwidth is used streaming about an 1.5 hours of hulu... at least measured using istat.