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| Thread ID: 128787 | 2013-01-15 13:48:00 | Gw2 and Skype question :3 | tigerj2 (16879) | PC World Chat |
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| 1322916 | 2013-01-15 13:48:00 | Does anyone know how much internet an average hour of guild wars 2 uses? Also does anyone know how much internet a skype voice chat with one person would take up per hour? |
tigerj2 (16879) | ||
| 1322917 | 2013-01-15 15:14:00 | Guild Wars - Most games use about 60-120mb per hour as a rough guess. It depends. It can be much less ~50mb an hour, but a good idea is to play it safe and say 100mb Skype - 250mb sounds about right, maybe 500 Best way is to install networx www.softperfect.com and record your data usage over an hour. Do several readings to get an average. It's also good for just checking on your daily usage. I use it often. |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1322918 | 2013-01-15 21:16:00 | Whhaaaaa? 500MB!?! A voice chat using the uncompressed "standard" g711 is only approx 70MB per-hour! iLBC which they used previously uses around 1/3 that! AFAIK they use SILK and some codec of their own (Opus?) but IIRC the bitrate isn't fixed, and so if the "HD Audio" ends up kicking in it may be using marginally more. Still, I would say that if it's not "HD Voice" (Or if there's a way to disable it) then 70MB per hour is a very, very conservative amount. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1322919 | 2013-01-15 21:22:00 | Skype uses much less than 250MB an hour. 30MB is more like it; and that's with video. | Zara Baxter (16260) | ||
| 1322920 | 2013-01-15 22:12:00 | Can't be with video?! Even at 300kbps for poor quality that'd still be somewhere in the vicinity of 150MB once you add audio on top. | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1322921 | 2013-01-15 22:21:00 | I've run video over dial-up... Skype's site says it averages 24-128kbps. So let's say 50MB. My experience has certainly been more at the 30MB end of the scale. I do a lot of video Skype and it barely rates on my 3G stick modem... |
Zara Baxter (16260) | ||
| 1322922 | 2013-01-15 22:24:00 | Of course, having said that, I don't se HD, which is likely to be higher. You can check your own: support.skype.com |
Zara Baxter (16260) | ||
| 1322923 | 2013-01-15 22:37:00 | Can't say I actually *use* Skype myself, but cool to see they've put in that "See how much bandwidth my call is using" feature. Their own website says they recommend a minimum for poor-quality video of 128k: support.skype.com Good quality video wants 400kbps, so I was pretty damn close :D Dunno how the hell you did it over dial-up, considering dial-up is 56kbps (In absolute ideal conditions, not usually actually attained), and half-duplex, so you can do an iLBC audio call (SILK now in Skype? Or Opus?) but that's basically leaving no room for any video. Keeping in mind that if Skype *can* use more bandwidth, it likely will, so there's no easy way for you to say "Righto, only use the 128kbps video call at poor quality, rather than good quality at 400kbps". |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1322924 | 2013-01-15 22:52:00 | Note that they recommend that as a connection speed, though, not as how much bandwidth it would use. That same page is where they quote 28-128kbps as average. I didn't say it was good video on dialup, hehe. And that was on an older version, so I don't know how much the codecs, etc have changed since. I still Skype video several times a week though, on 3G and on Wi-Fi, using a standard iPad or laptop webcam. My numbers are based on my usage, but I can check my partner's HD webcam to see how his numbers compare this evening. |
Zara Baxter (16260) | ||
| 1322925 | 2013-01-15 23:13:00 | Ah well, fair enough, I'd imagine it's possible. I agree though, a voice call doesn't use much at all. |
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