<p>I havent seen a proper answer on the internet so I did the test myself using bitcoin-0.18.1 with the -testnet flag and after downloading the chain ~2 GB I monitored the traffic of the bitcoind process with nethogs for 24 hours.</p>

<p>I got 40MB download and 20MB uploads so 60*30 = 1800MB</p>

<p>You can expect 1.8GB of traffic from the bitcoin testnet compared to the 200GB+ they advise for the <a href="https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node#minimum-requirements" rel="nofollow noreferrer">bitcoin mainnet</a></p>

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<p>I want to begin experimenting with bitcoin. I notice the estimated upload traffic for the real bitcoin network is around 200 GB per month. That's too much for an experiment. How much traffic per month could I expect for a node on the test network?</p>

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Quantity of traffic on test network
Gerard Ashton
# Quantity of traffic on test network

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-12-22)

I want to begin experimenting with bitcoin. I notice the estimated upload traffic for the real bitcoin network is around 200 GB per month. That's too much for an experiment. How much traffic per month could I expect for a node on the test network?

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### Answer by username_1 on 2019-10-17. Score: 1

I havent seen a proper answer on the internet so I did the test myself using bitcoin-0.18.1 with the -testnet flag and after downloading the chain ~2 GB I monitored the traffic of the bitcoind process with nethogs for 24 hours.

I got 40MB download and 20MB uploads so 60\*30 = 1800MB

You can expect 1.8GB of traffic from the bitcoin testnet compared to the 200GB+ they advise for the [bitcoin mainnet](https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node#minimum-requirements)


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