[aprssig] Mobile non-RF beacon rate?

[Heikki Hannikainen]

On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, Gerhard wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Robert Bruninga <bruninga at usna.edu> wrote:
>
>> Given an average commute of an hour, and APRS users spread out
>> over maybe 10 time zones and half of them just WX stations or
>> DIGIS, then that's about 2000 per minute?  Just guessing here..
>
> That's a good guess, Bob.
>
> My server T2FRANCE has to process more than 30 packets per second
> with a five min average:
> http://monitor.nh6z.net/mrtg/cgi-bin/mrtg-rrd.cgi/france/france_packets.html

And here's some statistics from aprs.fi. The "Number of packets received 
from APRS-IS per second" actually contains some packets which were 
received from the WXQA servers, not the APRS-IS, the plain APRS-IS rate is 
closer to 30..40 per second. By today's Internet standards, it's actually 
not a lot.

http://aprs.fi/stats/daily
http://aprs.fi/stats/yearly

   - Hessu