Roughly how many MB used in one hour online session

[BeerHunter 0]

I'm curious as to roughly how much data flows back and forth during a gaming session.

I'm rural and relegated to whatever I can get unless I go back to dial up.

Looking at a plan that caps at 10G then overages apply. Haven't played online for ages but thinking maybe....

But how long will 10G last??

Any guesses?

Txs

[markocro 66]

10g is enoguh for 1 month, but you can always check at your ISP user page how much trafic you have left, if something unlcear PM me.

bye

[liquidpinky 11]

You can get windows gadgets that monitor network usage as well if you really want to keep an eye on it.

http://addgadget.com/network_meter/

[Infam0us 10]

Use Netlimiter / Thread

[BeerHunter 0]

Using NetWorx , guess I'll just try it and monitor , see what happens.

Thanks anyway

[Steakslim 1]

10g is enoguh for 1 month, but you can always check at your ISP user page how much trafic you have left, if something unlcear PM me.

bye

Funny you mention that my friend got in trouble with Comcast the other day for using 400gb in the last month lol.

[Westsailor 10]

My DSL was down so I used my 3.5G modem the other night. At the end of the night, maybe 3-4 hrs play on an A.C.E/Acre server I'd used about 523 Mb

[Infam0us 10]

Using NetWorx , guess I'll just try it and monitor , see what happens.

Thanks anyway

You can use netlimiter to only use what you specify as I recall and then it stops anymore internets being used :)

[gossamersolid 155]

My DSL was down so I used my 3.5G modem the other night. At the end of the night, maybe 3-4 hrs play on an A.C.E/Acre server I'd used about 523 Mb

Playing does not use that much, you must be doing something else in your background.

[becubed 24]

I host games for my brother and he is on 56k dial up, it works fine.

So the max for him would be about 24 Mb hour down and about 14Mb up.

I don't know if more would be transferred if the bandwidth was available.

Scott

[Westsailor 10]

Playing does not use that much, you must be doing something else in your background.

I thought that was pretty stiff as well. However, I cleared the statistics log specifically to see how much data I would use and that's what the 'tab' was at the end of the night.

I don't know of anything else going on the background that would be net related. Nothing intentional anyway and nothing shows up when my 3.5g modem is otherwise idle (i.e. no u/l or d/l activity other than maybe a 'heartbeat'.

If there is some background process going on I sure would like to shut it down. Any ideas?

[nkenny 1057]

Well windows update or something similar springs to mind.

-k

[SWAT_BigBear 0]

Use your connection status and monitor when you start and finish game play.

In this pic, I was watching it get higher as the logo top of these forums rotate.

[wilf55 10]

I'd agree with around 100-150 megs per hour.

[Westsailor 10]

Well windows update or something similar springs to mind.

-k

nope... all that kinda stuff is turned off (I don't let my 'puter do anything without my express consent). No torrents d/l'ing, no automagic anything, nothing showing up in taskmanager processes/network, etc.

My 3.5G statistics are not 'to the byte' but I know it can't be a over three hundred megs off over just a few hours.

I'm sure I did but next time I use it I'll double check that I in fact cleared the stats before playing Arma MP and report my usage here again.

[rundll.exe 12]

I'm not surprised if it depends greatly on the mission type and server settings. A 3 men coop with 50 AI to kill will not use much trafic, while a warfare game with 42 players and hundereds of AI will generate heavy trafic. Also the minerrortosend will have some bandwiths influence I think (more frequent updates = more trafic). Of course, the trafic also depends on the server upload speed divided by the nr of players (assuming it is always at 100% load)

[Westsailor 10]

Interesting you should mention that. It was indeed a scheduled TFB mission night with about 38 players and a buttload of AI. That was why I was using my 3.5G modem anyway. My DSL was acting flaky and I didn't want to miss an epic night.

Mission briefing and intel here: Operation Static Harvest