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How much bandwidth does WeatherBug use and how often does it update?

WeatherBug refreshes the data it is receiving at different time intervals depending upon how you are viewing the WeatherBug application. Listed below are WeatherBug refresh rates:

Foreground (when your WeatherBug display is fully opened on your screen):

• In the first minute: It updates weather data every 30 seconds.
• Ad rotates only if a mouse or a key is pressed.
• Background (when your WeatherBug display is minimized to be next to the time in the bottom right of your computer screen):
• Makes weather data update every 1 hour.
• For both background and foreground, WeatherBug makes alert information requests every 5 minutes with total data size (in/out) 250B, and makes forecast information requests every 2 hours, with data size 250B.
• Each weather data request (in/out): 375B.
• Each ad banner may consume 10KB.
• The bandwidth consumption is:
• Foreground first 1 minute: 1.93kb/sec
• Foreground after 1 minute or Background: 0.01kb/sec.

All the background and branding images are cached. If the user clicks on a Tab, it will load tiny web pages and ads may rotate, this may increase the bandwidth in the short term, but after that it will use the same bandwidth as described above. .

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