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My brother plays this game non stop, say a constant 10hrs a day, probably more, but for the sake of this thread, lets say 10hrs a day. Does anyone know roughly how much bandwidth he'll use in a 10hr session? :)
 
Ulfhedjinn said:
I think a bandwidth limiter to block WoW would be more helpful in this case. Spending 10 hours a day in a game is really not good.
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I wish i only spent 10 hours a day playing games *remembers the hard core FFXI days with 18 hour days*

As for the thread yeah get a bandwidth monitor and check it out that way.
 
It has gotten to the point were I want to delete the game off his computer and throw the damn game in the bin. It's not healthy and it's affecting every other aspect of his life at the minute. No one have an idea of how much bandwidth it would consume in a 10hr period? Anyone recommend a bandwidth monitor, I've got netlimiter, but anything I put on his computer, he'll turn off.
 
Prolly close to nothing, I can have sell shops in mmorpgs going 24/7 and not use a 1 gig in a month. I've never played WoW but i'll assume it does nothing thats bandwidth hungry.
Not like your streaming video or audio during those 10hrs....
Even TS/Vent is low bandwith, I would'nt start charging him just yet :p
but if you wanted to be cruel use Net Limiter
 
It might vary depending on how much raiding he does etc.

If you're in Molten Core with 39 others throwing spells around it's going to get a lot busier than if you stand in Ironforge begging :rolleyes:

I doubt it uses a lot though... it's one of those games that needs a lower latency more than a high bandwidth. Sure, it doesn't need that <50ms ping that FPSes do, but any higher than 250ms and it gets a bit uncomfortable.
 
Just about nothing really even if he is playing that much a day. Nothing to worry about. Jimmyboyos usage is probably the same as your brothers, maybe even less.
 
Not sure about bandwidth but 10hr sessions are nothing to how much I used to play WoW, days without sleep were not uncommon. damn MMO's.
 
He's constantly doing raids. Whenever I ask him why he still plays it (he's been level 60 for about 8 months), he just plays it for the items he can win when raiding. Apparently it never gets boring or repetitive doing this for endless hours every single day of the week. :eek: I'm bored of him even talking about it.
 
Is there a way to reserve a certain amount of bandwidth for the game?

I.e. can i be downloading something in the background but say, always leave this much upload and this much download free? Or is it more complicated than that?
 
Blackstar_solar said:
Is there a way to reserve a certain amount of bandwidth for the game?

I.e. can i be downloading something in the background but say, always leave this much upload and this much download free? Or is it more complicated than that?
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Yes, with a linux router / firewall box.

I do this (as well as bandwidth monitoring) with Smoothwall, a free Linux distro.

I'm a linux newb, but Smoothwall is so easy, you literally download the QoS (quality of service) module and follow the steps it tells you to do. You get a nice Web Interface to configure everything. Highly recommended.
 
Sorry I don't have access to our router as I'm in a shared house (although I'm really the only one who makes use of the 4mb :) )
Is it possible to do this on the PC? I spose I could just set the max on the download client...thoughts?
 
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