How much bandwidth does sharing take?
Bev wrote in recent messages on the Plane Plotter Yahoo group (message 3642) (message 6417): One record for one aircraft is 105 bytes. That corresponds to 4.5Mb per month per aircraft. The server downloads records for all the aircraft that show on your current chart display. If you average 10 aircraft on the screen, the monthly download would be around 35Mb. If you average 100 aircraft, the monthly download would be around 450Mb. Because of the way the sharing server throttles the data if you are displaying a very large area with lots of aircraft, the total is unlikely to exceed the 450Mb figure. On the uplink it will always be less than that although I think many ISPs only meter the downloaded data and not the uploaded data since their capacity problem is always in the downward direction. Of course, if you check the Upload only option, then the download bandwidth would be negligible.
