Quote from: michelem on August 29, 2014, 08:52:46 AM

Quote from: stfnnn on August 28, 2014, 06:53:19 PM

Michelem, I have a feature request: I would like to disable the Top bar altcoin/bitcoin rates.

I have my miners in a remote location with free electricity but without a dedicated internet connection. So I've setup a 3G modem with a 1Gb dataplan. Before I installed Minera the 1Gb was sufficient. Now it isn't. So I suspect that Minera is using more bandwidth then I want it to. Can you tell me how often Minera is checking the rates, and if this is also happening when I don't have Minera opened in my browser?

Thanks!

mmm, it's really weird because Minera shouldn't get a lot of data, I mean there is a cron job that runs every minute but it's not going to download anything every minute.

There are a couple of API request from Cryptsy one is needed to get the list of crypto currencies and it takes a lot because it's about 9MB of JSON, but the cron job get it only one time per week so it's about 40MB per month.

Then there is the crypto currencies data you selected, the cron job get the JSON data every hour (also if you are not browsing it), but this kind of data are only about 50KB, so if you selected only one, you get at max about 35MB per month.

Then there is the all the files you need to download every time you get a page or refresh the dashboard, that is about 120KB per page, but again it's hard to reach 1GB in a month, you should refresh the dashboard every 10 minutes every day continuously.

A question: are you sure you didn't get hacked? That could be really easy if you leave everything as default (like the passwords) and you allow SSH connection from the world.

I can suggest to install a package like "iptraf" (sudo apt-get install iptraf) and launch it as daemon logging every traffic you do, so you could understand what's the problem on your controller.

Please keep me informed.
Thanks

I only have the required minimum of 1 altcoin selected: LTC/BTC.

Because of the nature of 3G networks you can't connect directly to your 3G device. I have setup autossh to create a reverse ssh tunnel to my home server. Plain password authentication is disabled, only keys are accepted. I've installed vnstat. It shows me a data usage of 60-70 Mb daily. I will install another bandwidth monitor that will show me more details.

I will get back to you when I have returned from my holiday.

Thanks.