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| Thread ID: 54076 | 2005-02-03 13:22:00 | Yet another ADSL question | silvermonkey (7064) | Press F1 |
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| 321170 | 2005-02-03 13:22:00 | Hi, I finally got my dsl working - very fast compared to dial up. Problem is I am on 5gb limit and while I have some idea of how much it is if I download stuff - I have a bigger problem monitoring online games. For example if I would be playing World of Warcraft, Battlefield, Warcraft etc for ~5-6 (250-300 hours per month) hours a day, how much space it would burn (excluding dling updates, just normal play) Providing I don't use internet for anything else (other than random email) - will 5 gb a month be enough? |
silvermonkey (7064) | ||
| 321171 | 2005-02-03 14:32:00 | Apparently WoW uses about 56 K of bandwidth. This is typical of games, they don't use much bandwidth but you want a low latency connection (i.e. not a dial up). So at around 5 kilobytes/s you get 18 MB/hour about 5.4 GB for 300 hours a month. But how big are any patches ;) 160 MB per day isn't that much really (in a flat of four people or so the cap would be blown in 5 days). netstat live - monitor traffic (www.analogx.com) |
gibler (49) | ||
| 321172 | 2005-02-03 17:06:00 | Just as a point of interest I have just completed my first month on broadband. I used 834 Mbs. I do not play games, download videos of music etc. Just e-mails , browsing and downloading mainly text etc. Jack |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 321173 | 2005-02-03 17:41:00 | Don't forget there is a JetStream usage meter you can use as a guide - see here (www.telecom.co.nz), or if your ISP is controlling your ADSL (eg UBS) , then they should have a meter. | Jen (38) | ||
| 321174 | 2005-02-03 22:31:00 | Just as a point of interest I have just completed my first month on broadband. I used 834 Mbs. I do not play games, download videos of music etc. Just e-mails , browsing and downloading mainly text etc. Jack 2nd month on jetstream, 4 days in and we've just passed 8 GB on our 2mbit connection :/ |
sal (67) | ||
| 321175 | 2005-02-03 22:51:00 | Don't forget there is a JetStream usage meter you can use as a guide - see here (www.telecom.co.nz), or if your ISP is controlling your ADSL (eg UBS) , then they should have a meter. Better still is Traffic Usage Checker (4g.virtual.net.nz) by a guy called Andrew Connell. It sits in the system tray and checks your usage regularly. I have it running on my work machine so I can keep an eye on my machine at home. ;) |
Miami Steve (2128) | ||
| 321176 | 2005-02-03 23:31:00 | Better still is Traffic Usage Checker (4g.virtual.net.nz) by a guy called Andrew Connell. It sits in the system tray and checks your usage regularly. I have it running on my work machine so I can keep an eye on my machine at home. ;) Will it quote the same figures as Telecom's, or is that not relevant? I was under the impression that Telecoms/Xtra's usage metre for billing purposes counted a MB as 1000Kb rather than 1024 along with a few other little niceties to help the bottom line. Is that correct? |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 321177 | 2005-02-03 23:40:00 | Will it quote the same figures as Telecom's, or is that not relevant? I was under the impression that Telecoms/Xtra's usage metre for billing purposes counted a MB as 1000Kb rather than 1024 along with a few other little niceties to help the bottom line . Is that correct? You select your ISP, enter your username and password and (AFAIK) the program retrieves the data directly from Telecom's system, so it is not relevant what they classify as a Mb . |
Miami Steve (2128) | ||
| 321178 | 2005-02-04 01:17:00 | I was under the impression that Telecoms/Xtra's usage metre for billing purposes counted a MB as 1000Kb rather than 1024 along with a few other little niceties to help the bottom line. Is that correct? They are probably correct in this according to the preferred IEC usage since 1998. en.wikipedia.org |
PaulD (232) | ||
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