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| Thread ID: 61886 | 2005-09-20 01:50:00 | Online games and 10GB cap | sarel (2490) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 389566 | 2005-09-20 01:50:00 | My son plays online games a lot with our newish broadband, and as expected the 10GB cap disappears quite fast. Is there any way one can play the games online without losing such a lot of bandwith the same time? I don't know whether this is a stupid question or not so please forgive me if it is sarel |
sarel (2490) | ||
| 389567 | 2005-09-20 02:32:00 | All depends. You can log on to www.jetstreamgames.co.nz with their login (You'd need to change that in the router settings). Or get another plan with another ISP that has better caps. Actrix have daily caps so that you are not waiting for the month to be up. Orcon has one where you can keep giving them another $10 for my data. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 389568 | 2005-09-20 02:51:00 | Battlefield2 would be the only popular online game at the moment that would put your cap in danger without playing all day every day. Xtra has servers for quite a few games on their jetstreamgames realm, but lately games like battlefield 2 & CSS don't work without a connection to the central server. | Greven (91) | ||
| 389569 | 2005-09-20 04:18:00 | Yup... BF2 is a bandwidth hog. By myself with no other downloading, I managed to exceed my cap which I put down to BF2 gameplaying. I can't help myself though! Lo. |
Lohsing (219) | ||
| 389570 | 2005-09-20 19:52:00 | Sarel... what games is he into at the moment? Some online games consume bugger all bandwidth, ie those that connect peer-to-peer, or directly via modem-to-modem. Others that suck off a central server can be enormous hogs. I've been an avid online gamer for a while, and in over 3 years never exceeded 5 gigs of bandwidth, including all my other online activities/work etc. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 389571 | 2005-09-20 20:01:00 | easy.......get two phone lines .......broadband on both you pay for yours he pays for his ! | drcspy (146) | ||
| 389572 | 2005-09-21 18:28:00 | More practical solution! Restrict your son from playing online games, give him a book to read instead. Education, sarel... Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 389573 | 2005-09-21 20:25:00 | Restrict your son from playing online games, give him a book to read instead. :mad: :yuck: |
Greg (193) | ||
| 389574 | 2005-09-21 21:35:00 | Do the unranked servers require a continuous connection to EA? If not, he can probably play on the Xtra unranked servers while connected to the jetstreamgames realm. | Greven (91) | ||
| 389575 | 2005-09-22 01:37:00 | Greg Some Wolfenstein Returning crap (I am not 100% sure). Will find out ho'. Greg - can't do, he can't afford B/B on his own sarel |
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