Bandwidth

Oliet_No1 · 6 Jan 2007 at 21:53

Just had a good old fashioned 8 hour session on my 360 (Twas the spectrum 48k when i last had such a long time on a games machine!), my question is this:-

How much have i downloaded in that time? (approx how much per hour does the 360 download when playing online)

Moto Gp 06-Kicks ass!

Psycho Sonny · 6 Jan 2007 at 21:59

depends on a number of things, game being played, how many other players their are, for example pro evo may only be 1 on 1 but 22 different players data is being sent constantly whereas in pgr3 there may only be 2 cars on the track so it uses much less bandwidth

Oliet_No1 · 6 Jan 2007 at 22:04

Circa figure?
(cheers for explanation btw)

gord · 6 Jan 2007 at 22:11

best thing to do is find a broadband usage checker program and monitor it before and after.. its the only way to be sure

NokkonWud · 7 Jan 2007 at 01:19

It's negligible. I have never heard of anyone going over a cap playing games.

Phil99 · 7 Jan 2007 at 01:25

Probably about 250-500MB, at the very most if you weren't downloading in the background. Realistically probably a fair bit less.

The Pat · 7 Jan 2007 at 05:23

General guide is if you have 15Gb cap for the month that means you could play it for 15 hours everyday that month. Not sure if that is right, just what I have been told.

Oliet_No1 · 7 Jan 2007 at 09:29

Unfortunately all the usage progs i have looked at seem to only monitor the host machine rather than the line.

But I have 20Gig d/l limit - and a full time job/two kids so 20 hours per week would be the absolute max.

Cheers though guys.

Revelator · 7 Jan 2007 at 11:36

Oliet_No1 said:
Moto Gp 06-Kicks ass!

Hope you don't get hit with the save glitch that the game has because you will be saying I'd like to kick their ass instead. It happened to me I lost everything, all setups, times, seed. It's like starting from scratch.

ste_bla · 7 Jan 2007 at 15:34

As you can play online via a 512kb connection
Which maxs in theory @ 64KBpersec
64*60secs = 3840 KBpmin or 3.8MB
3.8MB * 60mins = 228mb an hour max

So it wont use more than 200mb an hour unless your downloading demos which can max out your conection what ever the speed..

Unless my maths is wrong?

just Scott · 7 Jan 2007 at 16:11

I remember last year one of the Xbox Live organisers posted on the Xbox.com forums that the average usage is about 450mb a week.

It just depends really.

LadFromWales · 8 Jan 2007 at 00:56

I'd be happy enough if the 'hackers' managed to create an overlay that sat in the corner, and produced a small realtime bandwidth graph/figures, together with the usage of various resources. Would be cool!

If your really interested on the exact amount of bandwidth used by a specific game though, you could hook your 360 up to your PC, use ICS, and install NetMeter or something, which can monitor the bandwidth usage of specific applications and interfaces.

My router (WRT54GS running Tomato modified firmware) Can tell me the bandwidth usage of each connected device or connection. I don't know if others do this?