Virgin Media traffic control question

simon22 · 3 Jul 2010 at 03:15

Well I've been reading all sorts of crap about this traffic control and throttling at peak times and I was just wondering about my situation here

When I sit playing Counter-Strike 1.6 for example how much am I actually downloading? Let's say for example I am playing on a Polish server which is filled up by 32 players and I stay there for a whole day, what is the size of downloaded gametime? I am not really clever at these things but hopefully you know what I mean

Cheers

asim18 · 3 Jul 2010 at 03:40

Type Net_Graph 1 into the console to bring up info about download/upload.

Alternatively, you could use something like DU Meter to measure exactly how much data is transferred over a period of time.

Even if you get throttled, it won't make a difference to pings. As long as you're not doing anything else in the background.

Zarf · 3 Jul 2010 at 08:28

Gaming doesn't use that much, probably around 50MB/hour at most.

Duke · 3 Jul 2010 at 09:28

Last time I played CS is used something like 5-10k/s, so basically nothing.