Massive bandwidth increase

[water01]

And I have just realised I forgot a webcam picture of 25K every 30 seconds and about 400 motion sensor pictures (again 25k) from my security camera every day!!

[logjam]

Steve. Yes, I've even checked the on-server FTP log which shows that I didn't upload anything like 5Gb. They can look at that themselves. The other clincher is that as a limited use satellite internet user, I'm only allowed 2Gb of upload a month. If I had reached that figure my speed would have been throttled to modem speeds. In fact there was no increase recorded, and I still have my normal speed. I'll present all this evidence to them, and see if they can get their experts to look at it. I'll continue to test the rest of it, and I'll let you know if this problem is resolved.

water01. Well, I hope you can see that it is not my measurements which are wrong. In some parts of rural Lincolnshire you have a choice between unlimited 1Mb, or less (landline) or limited 20Mb (satellite). I've gone for the latter. I've learnt the expression 'notspot' since I moved! My uploads are limited to 2Gb/month anyway so the 5Gb/month is not an issue, but thank you for the information. With Cumulus 1 I unticked the 'standard files', and used the 'Toolbox' to schedule less frequent uploads of data which didn't change often. I never used the entire suite of Cumulus pages anyway. That kept the total uploads well under the limit. Having given myself a crash course in 'Python', I've learnt to do the same sort of thing on the Raspberry Pi, but less elegantly, and certainly not as robustly as 'toolbox'.

[water01]

WOW and I thought I was bad in rural Somerset. So much for "Fast Broadband" for everyone policy which seems to be limited by "but only if BT Openreach want's to do it"!!

[logjam]

BT have promised to upgrade my area to . . . wait for it . . . 2Mb!

Anyhow, you can see why bandwidth use has a rather a critical edge to it for me than for most people.