I was told, and believe, that the extra bandwidth usage is coming from chain updates because we're all full nodes. I have 25 wallets of different coins, and none of them will touch the usage of BBP client.
Not sure why it only updates in outgoing direction. One would think the communication would be two-way, which makes me wonder about what's happening.
Typically, about 1GB per day, and we are metered here, so it eats into the monthly allotment.
So with the end of heat mining, can we expect our network usage to go down also? Or will it always be like this?
Well we are all full nodes with the full chain, but we are only full nodes if we have a firewall forwarding port 40000 to the fullnode.
If you look at tools | info, see if you have inbound connections. That will tell you if you are servicing other nodes both ways (IE accepting new users connections, people who aren't synced yet).
But lets try to hone in on this - you having multiple wallets will be very valuable to diagnose this. Could you take a look at the tools | network traffic tab in biblepay, and compare it for 24 hours to one of your other popular coins and tell us the difference in outbound traffic?
As far as the future, we are technically retiring podc (not heat mining, actually heat mining would be getting more popular with us- since more POBH users will jump on for POG). The only bandwidth change would be less consumed by boinc and the boinc client and the boinc programs. You would see an increase in node count, but this new bandwidth draw would be shared across the new nodes also.
Id like to know the baselines first before we assign a dev to add the feature that monitors the bandwidth by messagetype.