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Comrex Access data consumption

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Anyone out there using the Access on 3G for long form broadcasts (i.e. high school football?)

If so, do you have problems with blowing through the data caps on your wireless data service? Most services seem to be capping at 5 GB a month. It would seem to me that this risk would exist with the Access if one did too many long broadcasts.

We're planning to stick with our Marti for our home games and those road games that are within range, but we still could be doing 4 or 5 full length game broadcasts on the Access, although some of the venues may have their own high speed data service.
 
We've got unlimited data through Verizon, so I haven't been paying close attention to the data usage. On our busiest weeks, we are connected about 5-6 hours total, running a mono setting back to the studio. If you are doing one game a week, it would seem that you would be ok. Your mileage may vary.
 
Have had no problem doing a game a week with it. Did the last game a couple weeks ago. Am now having trouble with it connecting and only passing audio in short burst about every 6.6 seconds. Ever had that problem? It's in the same locations that we never had a problem before. Comrex says the unit is fine but the 3G is shaky.
 
I have ours running with a 1 sec minimum buffer at the studio end to counter 3G issues. We still get occasional audio dropouts but they are fewer and farther between this way. One press box had hard-wired internet, and it was rock solid.

As it turns out, we went through just less than 400 MB of data for a month worth of game broadcasts. This bodes well for basketball when we may do 8 or 10 games in a month (although those broadcasts will be shorter).
 
Using HQ1 codec mode
data (including IP overhead) ~ 46kb/s in each direction
92 Kb/s = 11.5KBytes/s = 690 KB/min = 40.4 MB/hr
So within the 5GB cap you could run for around 123 hours.
Double that if you only run in one direction.

Tom Hartnett
Comrex
 
Excuse me for nitpicking, but...

comrex said:
data (including IP overhead) ~ 46kb/s in each direction
92 Kb/s = 11.5KBytes/s = 690 KB/min = 40.4 MB/hr
Click to expand...

It should be 92 kb/s (just like above with 46kb/s) which is 92000 b/s, which is 11500 B/s (B as in bytes) which however is 11.23 KB/s!

Even Google doesn't calculate this correctly, so for the sake of technical accuracy... :)


Regards,
Goran Tomas
 
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