[mythtvnz] Internet Traffic

[Tortise]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Haar" <jhaar-ourshack-com at whanau.org>
To: <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 10:02 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] HVR-1200 and EPG...


> On 12/17/2009 02:48 PM, Steve Hodge wrote:
>>
>>     Gee its a whole 1.2MB. Not going to break anyones bandwidth limit
>>     (except perhaps the server if its on a residential connection).
>>
>> Yep, those are the reasons why no one has done anything about it.
>
> Too right. If anyone cared enough, rsync would be the perfect solution.
> You just re-download the same file every day, and it'll figure out the
> bits that have changed and only sends them
>
> But for 1Meg?...
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Interesting discussion.  Ideally there'd be a file for each day, so that only the missing days were actually downloaded, other 
refinements also could be done, I am not suggesting that be a priority.....

however...

I've been checking out why I have a large hourly traffic spike that lasts about 2 minutes @ ~500kbps, same time each hour is 
occurring on my network.  I caught about 200 new states during one of these, all feeding my myth BE box - receiving data from movie 
databases at

http://72.21.211.32/
http://207.171.166.140/
http://api.themoviedb.org/2.1/

It seems to me if one is worried about traffic load, one should look for the major traffic sources first....

These sites seem to be all about movie information, - at a guess the images seen on the recording page screen, can I turn those off 
somewhere to confirm that is the source?  (This is on 0.22)

While they look smart I prefer to be able to read the fore text without their visual interference.  IMO they'd have been better 
taking up a window and not the whole screen.

Anyway does level of traffic warrant some discussion?