How much bandwidth does gaming use?

Hey there,

After years of not getting involved with online gaming in any big way, I have just started to play Combat Flight Sim 3 online, with IDnet I have quite a tight monthly dl limit, what I need to know is how much playing online games like CFS will impact my bw. Will hosting games use more than joining other games?

This particularly an issue as I just discovered that my WiFI Access point defaulted to 'open ' after a power outage and someone has been leaching my bbandwidth! :-(

Can't help with the gaming bandwidth, but

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after a power outage

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you need a UPS...

It won't run your PC for long, but it allows it to shut down gracefully.

ooooo! I have been out of the industry for too long, there never used to be a sensible UPS option for the home user, but I am now turning green with envy and going purple at the knees at the thought of others having such a groovy device. Now I just need to wait for that CofE grant.....

Thanks

Glad to help- it's not a bad little unit.

It's carried me across a few brief outages, but hasn't yet had the full test...

Online gaming usually expends about 15 Mb per hour ... surfing about 6Mb per hour. Downloads are yer own business

I am a pretty heavy gamer and surfer but not very heavy on downloads and get through probably just over 2Gb on average.

Depends on the games but normally especially online only games that have regular patches i use around 10gb a month. Regular player of BF-2 , WoW and various others. Whilst downloading a few things.

I play CoD2 and have found it to be approx 20Mb per hour.

I have just checked netmeter and have used
5gb , 6.5gb & 4gb over the last 3 months and i havent really downloaded much other than security updater e.t.c..

Edited by idnetuser (Mon 16-Oct-06 19:39:36)

Thanks guys,

That's pretty helpful. think I am going to hit the BW limit this month, but that is partly down to me not keeping tabs enough onmy Access Point!

Should stay under next as long as I can resist jumping in my Spitfire occassionally :-D

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