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[Stuart W]

Playing games may only be a 20k stream, but it's CONSTANT.

When you browse the web, you download a page, then your conection is pretty much idlw whislt you read the info on that page.

Take this forum for example, it takes about 1 or 2 seconds to download the page, then you start reading the posts, decide on an answer, make your reply etc.

I play Bf1942 and am responsible for my clans Bf1942 on-line server.
It gets through 600 - 700G per month.
Admitedly, the server is connected to all players, a player only connects to one server and the server is running the game 24/7/365, so these numbers are excesive for home use.
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I know I will be WAY over this limit most months.
I am using a monitor from AnalogX.
Last month I was hardly on the PC, this month I have been back to my usual self on the net.....
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[BBKing]

Playing games may only be a 20k stream, but it's CONSTANT.

It's constant while you're playing the game - the problem that ntl and other ISPs have is P2P, which is divorced from the necessity of having a human operator, in that you can set it off and then go to bed, or indeed on holiday.

I'd be VERY surprised if any game required the sort of bandwidth use you can get out of a simple P2P app.

[SMHarman]

20k / s = 1200k / min = 72000k hr
5Gb = 5000 Mb = 5000000k
5000000/72000 = 69 hours of constant game playing or have I got my 0's wrong?

[elvistheprince]

My Cable router has been up for 97 hours or 4 days approx. (I only got NTL last week) I'm on 750k.

It's stats tell me I've sent approx. 140Mb and recieved approx. 4.4Gb, I've only really browsed and recieved emails thus far, 5Gb really isn't going to go far!

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by elvistheprince

My Cable router has been up for 97 hours or 4 days approx. (I only got NTL last week) I'm on 750k.

It's stats tell me I've sent approx. 140Mb and recieved approx. 4.4Gb, I've only really browsed and recieved emails thus far, 5Gb really isn't going to go far!

hi and to the site , must have been quite a few max size attachments if that is all you have doing , hope you enjoy your stay here

[elvistheprince]

Just to follow up a bit I looked up my usage stats for my last couple of months of ADSL,:
Nov - Dec 13Gb
Oct - Nov 16Gb,

Again that is only browsing, email, small (approx. 1.5 Gb) amount of P2P and quite a bit on-line gaming (Novalogics Joint Operations mostly).

Hope you find these figures useful.

I also looked again at my routers stats and those figures are for Packets not bytes so I'm afraid I've not idea what the relation between the two are, I'm currently trying to get MRTG to work with my router (FWG114P) so I'll be able to post more accurate stats when I get that working.

Cheers

Stephen

[Stuart W]

Originally Posted by SMHarman

20k / s = 1200k / min = 72000k hr
5Gb = 5000 Mb = 5000000k
5000000/72000 = 69 hours of constant game playing or have I got my 0's wrong?

I play Bf1942, each round is 30mins, there are 3 rounds to one map.
This limit means I can only play 2 maps a day.

Well, I can't quiteplay 2 everyday... nor can I browse the web, use e-mail or anything.

Oh, and this is all supposing I stay at 20k the whole time, so no more TeamSpeak server to chatwith my friends whilst I play.

[SMHarman]

Originally Posted by Stuart W

I play Bf1942, each round is 30mins, there are 3 rounds to one map.
This limit means I can only play 2 maps a day.

Well, I can't quiteplay 2 everyday... nor can I browse the web, use e-mail or anything.

Oh, and this is all supposing I stay at 20k the whole time, so no more TeamSpeak server to chatwith my friends whilst I play.

Stuart, which service are you currently on? 300k 750k or 1.5mb.
If you are doing that much online gaming then I imagine you are on 750k plus. The 750k will become a 2Mb down / 128k up 30Gb cap service so limit you to 414hrs of silent gaming (ooh thats 60 days and nights with no breaks and no sleep in a month of 30 days) or less if you are using team speak.

The question this thread raised was with the faster "slow" service of 1Mb/64k 5Gb cap, would it be effective to move to this tier.

It seems for you serious gamers the answer is no, but even so for no more money (well the £20 swichoverfee) you will get a faster upload and the cap will remain where the guidance limit currently is.

[Stuart W]

Ahhhhh. My bad. Not paying attention

I'm on 1.5M because I am working on a MOD for BF1942 and need to upload the 500M installer once a week for my testers to install. I had to go for 1.5M because it's the only one with 256k upload.

Idealy (for me) I'd like 1.5M down, with 512k up.
I don't need anything faster for download than 1.5M because I don't realy need a download desperatly fast.
My downloads consist of CD images for Linux or other mods for BF1942, all of which are around the 500M mark, so I leave them queued to download over night.

[SLM]

I am not into gaming, p2p or big downloading so I suspect I will not go anywhere near the cap, neither am I very techie when it comes to pc's.

But all I could say about people complaing about caps is wait until the new year when ntl release the new speeds then upgrade to a cap that you will use.