Any ideas?
Thanks for the detailed explanation Saratoga WX!
Makes sense cause all I know is that when we suffer from all too frequent loss of upstream bandwidth, my rapid fire feed is always the last to go, so I would imagine it is a very small amount. At one point our normally 1.3 meg upload speed had sunk to believe it or not... 15k, and Rapid Fire was still working. Everything else had taken a dump way before it got that low.
I've never been able to understand the need (or desire) to upload more than once or twice per hour.
You're kidding right?
When people check a weather site, I think they would prefer to see what is going on NOW, not 45 minutes ago or god forbid, 60 minutes ago! Especially if you are in the middle of a major rain or snow storm.
Don't know what kind of web traffic you get, but I would venture to say it ain't nothing to write home about with glacial update intervals like that.
Before I had my own station I would always seek out a local PWS with the fastest update times. Sites like yours would be crossed off the list immediately. I could care less what the temp was an hour ago. I want to know what it is NOW!