broadband capping and gaming

imalwayshappy

hey all

If anyone has broadband and they are more then likely with some of the well known isp's. im restricted to an 8gb download cap a month. while gaming over the net such as dod how much will this use up just wonderin as today is my first day of broadband and its deadly thanks everyone.

Redrocket

what???
what isp are you with?
if you're with esat the limits are 8gb up/ 8gb down, seperate like
gaming wont use that much and its pretty easy to keep track of your usage via an online logging system: http://www.iol.ie/broadband/bb_use.htm
something like that for esat

MickFarr

Download DUMeter from www.dumeter.com. It's only about 1MB. You can start a stopwatch. Go play DOD for an hour or two. When you finish playing the game the stopwatch will tell you how much data you have uploaded/downloaded while you where playing.

Also you can see how much you have up/downloaded each day/week/month

It's a 30 day trial but it is worth paying the $20 for!

Check out my screenshots

SantaHoe

Online gaming uses sweet fuk all... you won't be hitting anywhere near 8Gigs a month if you're just gaming and web-surfing.
Don't give it a second though, really... don't.
You can be online-gaming 12 hours a day, every day for the whole month and still not have to worry about it (trust me I know!)
The only time you'd get close is when you've done a lot of downloading... a few hundred MB here and there adds up.
I'm on the 16Gig cap deal, I don't even check my download totals anymore. :cool:

anthonymcg

MickFarr wrote:

Download DUMeter from www.dumeter.com. It's only about 1MB. You can start a stopwatch. Go play DOD for an hour or two. When you finish playing the game the stopwatch will tell you how much data you have uploaded/downloaded while you where playing.

Also you can see how much you have up/downloaded each day/week/month

It's a 30 day trial but it is worth paying the $20 for!

Check out my screenshots

Jesus Christ, who are you with? Thats a massive bandwidth allowance

Hobbes

if it just web browsing and online gaming and one machine. You will never hit 8GB.

I have 5 machines running off mine. Occasional large download, two of the machines the people who use them do listen to streaming music or streaming video from time to time. I also online game and use it for work (which is intensive).

The highest I have gotten it in one month is just over 9GB. I am on 16GB cap.

MickFarr

anthonymcg wrote:

Jesus Christ, who are you with? Thats a massive bandwidth allowance

NTL