World of Warcraft - Meg per hour

[mopap]

Does anyone have any idea how much bandwidth WoW takes per hour of play?

I know they say BF2 is very high at about 80 meg an hour. Since ppl are playing WoW on a dail up I assume it will be a lot less.

[MartinMorrison]

If u have a 3gig ADSL shaped account it will work.... the bandwidths okay...but for about 6 days at the end of the month it will become unplayable.

Sorry but i dont know the exact amount.

[Clipse]

Good average would be 5-10mb / hr

[BLaZor]

Depends on the latency you get.
Usually the stable connections use more bandwith so you are lokking for a good 40-60megs an hours.(depending on your bandwith)

[Clipse]

WOW wont use 40-60mb an hour, I have never seen that ever in my 10months of playing WOW, over my vpn with stable 400-500ms, 40-60meg / hr is for FPS games with the likes of CS/quake etc.

[diabolus]

Guildwars is ~3 MB p/hour. I suspect WoW/EverQuest/DAOC [all true MMORPGS] will have the same usage. In short a true mmorpg don't really use alot of bandwidth, definitely not the 50+ MB FPS games use.

I also play Anarchy Online [sci-fi MMORPG], usage there is 2 MB p/hr. Thats less than browsing for an hour :P

[BLaZor]

When i meant stable i meant under 150ms.
500ms is very unstable for ADSL

[BLaZor]

Normally i get 50ms in u.k servers and s.a servers 120ms

[Clipse]

Erm I say again, even if you had 1ms you wont use 40-60mb / hr, where do you get those stats just btw?

I have numerous friends playing sub 100ms in WOW from sweden to US and Ive asked this numerous times and they report very much in my region of 5-10mb / hr.

Latency wont increase/decrease your data throughput, latency does not equal bandwidth.

If you have 100ms with high packetloss, then naturally you would receive less data than someone with 100ms without any packetloss.

Other than that, high or low latency is only a time gap, not a throughput gap.

Put it like this, if I download a file from a international server and my latency to that server is 500ms, my 50k/s is the same as someone in US getting 50ms to the server and downloading at 50k/s , his 50k/s wont be slower/faster than my 50k/s .

I cant make it clearer than this. ;(


Normally i get 50ms in u.k servers and s.a servers 120ms

You get 120ms from uk to SA servers? Amazing, since thats not possible.. What are you using? Lazer technology?

[BLaZor]

nope my exchange is only 200meters away, and i have a 10:1 ratio
plus i got freedom2surf's new package which i will dearly miss!:(
/crying in pain!
Now i get 120ms before i used to get 260ms;)
catch my drift!

[P0tenc]

I't really depends on what's going on where you are in the game. Lots of activity will yield much higher bandwidth usage, But if it's quiet where you are in game bandwidth usage will be very low.

I would say about maximum 10mb down per hour (Very busy).

[Clipse]

Blazor - Ill rephrase again, YOU ARE NOT GETTING 120MS TO SOUTH-AFRICAN SERVERS.

I dont know what your trying to prove but dude, please.. bull****ting wont help, even if you live in England.

[MartinMorrison]

120 ms !!
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[BLaZor]

Argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
not WoW .
I completely fogot about it.
I thought you was talking about just the latency you get directly.
I get usually 350-400ms playing wow and BF2 is 300ms

[MartinMorrison]

yes thats about right

[useless]

lol!

sorry... this thread got a tad funny... 120ms... :D

[EchoZA]

Via shoddy TELKOM shapped conection a day playing WoW (+-16 hours) +-20Mb up and down combined, have just switched to VPN, will update on what that totals to soon!

P.S. NukeCAP, best deal at the moment for S.A. ADSL (TELKOM) users who play WoW!

[vrapt0r]

Buy the way Blazor there are no legal wow servers in sa

[Clipse]

I think blaz0r is more confused than trying to sound cool 8-)

[BLaZor]

you can create one, as a client.
Just host the game.

[BLaZor]

Clipse your right, im too confused these days, this is my last month in england and im gonna miss it, esp my isp!

[useless]

you can create one, as a client.
Just host the game.

WOW!

:D

i think Clipse is right about you.... :p

[wpswart006]

*BUMP*
lol, this failness deserves a revisit. :D

[Flip123]

you can create one, as a client.
Just host the game.

I Lol'd

[SnowWar]

Questing and such currently wow takes about 25mb/h
Raiding can go about double that.

[J0n0]

Questing and such currently wow takes about 25mb/h
Raiding can go about double that.

+1

Your usage depends on how you're playing. Lots of raiding will eat bandwidth not to mention your addons. So it would be different for everyone. I used to BG most of the day and do random dungeons. Used up roughly 60mb-120mb per hour.

[CrAzYLeGs69]

Blazor - Ill rephrase again, YOU ARE NOT GETTING 120MS TO SOUTH-AFRICAN SERVERS.

I dont know what your trying to prove but dude, please.. bull****ting wont help, even if you live in England.

He might have meant a ping of 120ms to other game servers hosted in SA. Not specifically a WOW server.

[ghoti]

My latency is around 280ms, I use around 20mb an hour out of raid and about 40mb/h of bandwidth in raid.

LOL at necro thread.

[Boerewors]

20mb+ out of raids? You okes must be running some serious bandwidth munching add-ons! I pay 25c a meg so I am paranoid about my usage and I get 2-4 megs an hour solo questing, 4-6 megs an hour in a 5 man. I am amazed at the difference between so many people.

[Kaine]

lol u nabs :p look at the dates for the original postings. for what its worth, its about 200megs for a 3 hour raid with ts or vent. outside raids its anything between 2 and 25megs depending on what you are doing. aaahhh the good old days of being anally raped by vodacon and their R389 for 2gb. that when you learn to watch your usage

[ghoti]

20mb+ out of raids? You okes must be running some serious bandwidth munching add-ons! I pay 25c a meg so I am paranoid about my usage and I get 2-4 megs an hour solo questing, 4-6 megs an hour in a 5 man. I am amazed at the difference between so many people.

Im normally in a bg if not in a raid.

[Conack]

lol u nabs :p look at the dates for the original postings. for what its worth, its about 200megs for a 3 hour raid with ts or vent. outside raids its anything between 2 and 25megs depending on what you are doing. aaahhh the good old days of being anally raped by vodacon and their R389 for 2gb. that when you learn to watch your usage

Yeah, that's about the same as what i've found.

[RPG_Fan]

lol u nabs :p look at the dates for the original postings. for what its worth, its about 200megs for a 3 hour raid with ts or vent. outside raids its anything between 2 and 25megs depending on what you are doing. aaahhh the good old days of being anally raped by vodacon and their R389 for 2gb. that when you learn to watch your usage
I don't think much has changed there. Still getting ripped off....

[dal2000]

lol u nabs :p look at the dates for the original postings. for what its worth, its about 200megs for a 3 hour raid with ts or vent. outside raids its anything between 2 and 25megs depending on what you are doing. aaahhh the good old days of being anally raped by vodacon and their R389 for 2gb. that when you learn to watch your usage

Haha, dude i'm paying R520 for 1mb wireless, with a 2 gig cap!!! It's all I can get in my area. Latency is 220ms to France though.

[Boerewors]

I am on the same kind of system as Dal2000, Paying R600 for a 3gig capped wireless with 25c a meg after that cap. Ouch, its a huge rip off, but then there is nothing else available.

[dal2000]

I am on the same kind of system as Dal2000, Paying R600 for a 3gig capped wireless with 25c a meg after that cap. Ouch, its a huge rip off, but then there is nothing else available.

I'm happy with it though, only just. I mean then theres always GPRS/EDGE? :p

[Chro]

my wife and i got away on a 5gig acc with no issues raiding three times a week and on about every other night with maybe one off now and then , so it used 2 be not that bad

[Argus]

i thought i would do test in regards to the meg per hour wow uses
i got a bandwidth logger that logs per application that makes a connection on the TCP/IP port

i played for an hour 8:45 - 9:45(just general questing, no raiding)
and the logger gave around 120MB for the hour at an average latency of 500ms

which only really gives 25 hours play time on a 3gig account
or 41 hours on 5gig account

this is only one test so far. going to do more 1 hour tests over the week to confirm the results

[Boerewors]

@Argus, I am not sure what is happening in your case m8, something is REALLY wrong. As I said in a previous post I get 8-10 per hour max and that is solo questing and 5 man dungeons.
Step 1: turn off peer to peer sharing in the launcher, if you start WoW through the launcher then your logger will show the launcher as sucking up your bandwidth giving other people the patch data.
test an hour of play and if that doesn't work then
Step 2: Strip yourself of ALL your add-ons (disable them) then measure an hour of play. If you still get the same, make sure you are not downloading content as you are playing, are you fully patched?


If none of this works then seriously consider that you are maybe compromised and something is leeching info off you as you play.

[dal2000]

i thought i would do test in regards to the meg per hour wow uses
i got a bandwidth logger that logs per application that makes a connection on the TCP/IP port

i played for an hour 8:45 - 9:45(just general questing, no raiding)
and the logger gave around 120MB for the hour at an average latency of 500ms

which only really gives 25 hours play time on a 3gig account
or 41 hours on 5gig account

this is only one test so far. going to do more 1 hour tests over the week to confirm the results

That network shaper/logger must be seriously faulty.
I get around about 10mb, more or less, depending on what exactly it is that i'm doing.

[davemc]

Argus, are you sure that your WoW client's download-in-background setting is off?
100mb/h is what my GF and I used to use up in 25 man RAIDS with Vent running, ~@ 300ms latency.
125 mb/h whilst doing very little is insane, something is wrong there.

[Whiptaka]

Normal rate is around 10-20MB an hour while questing and fooling around. In dungeons and 10man raids it'll rise to 25-35MB.

[Argus]

@boerewors thanks for reply
a my peer-to-peer is off in theory (capped account they add upload and download together which takes of your cap)
don't have any add-ons yet. they clutter the UI in the beginning areas
i am fully patched that i know of 4.0.3a
the logger does it by application so if it was something else using the bandwidth it would log it - so it is definitely wow that logged that data

@davemc
will check background downloader
as far as i know its off

will have to check when i get back home this afternoon

this is good i was starting to worry that my 3GB cap wouldn't be enough especially if its at 120MB per hour

thanks everyone
i won't have to give my ISP more money for doing absolutely nothing

[KingBel]

If I purchased a Cell C 2gig per month speed stick, would that suffice for the month, assuming that i play regularly (say 80 hours a month maximum)?

[Kaine]

If I purchased a Cell C 2gig per month speed stick, would that suffice for the month, assuming that i play regularly (say 80 hours a month maximum)?

if you use it only for wow, and nothing else, maybe. more than likely not. as I said in an earlier post, get battleping or trueping. costs you like $5 a month, R35 or so. much better idea.

what is your internet btw? adsl or wireless? if its wireless, dump it asap

[RJMadCat]

IT depends how much u play, but 2 GB a month is cutting it a bit close, and then when a big patch comes out u end up with not being able to play the rest of the month so u can DL the patch, i use 5GB a month on Wow + odd browsing and youtube tankspot vids... i would not survive with 2GB

[dal2000]

if you use it only for wow, and nothing else, maybe. more than likely not. as I said in an earlier post, get battleping or trueping. costs you like $5 a month, R35 or so. much better idea.

what is your internet btw? adsl or wireless? if its wireless, dump it asap

Realistically 2 gigs won't last if you plan to play for hours, even with just playing WoW alone. Battleping or true ping, or any proxy for that matter, isn't going to help him with bandwidth usage at all; in fact it will make it worse. Nothing wrong with wireless, unless you are using 3G then it depends on how reliable your area is.

[Kaine]

he was going on about how high his latency was, which is why I told him to check out a proxy 1st

[KingBel]

Yeah, I think i'm gonna try your suggestion about battleping before I go with another isp. Just moved into a new flat in Hatfield, and the place has been pre-wired for internet access. R200 for "uncapped" which is relatively fast, but they do have the habit of blocking ports and websites instead of throttling bandwidth when usage is high. Since I'm renting I do not really want to go the adsl route, especially if it's just gonna be to sort out WoW issues... but then again I have just started playing so once I get completely hooked, I might be tempted to find a better solution.


if you use it only for wow, and nothing else, maybe. more than likely not. as I said in an earlier post, get battleping or trueping. costs you like $5 a month, R35 or so. much better idea.

what is your internet btw? adsl or wireless? if its wireless, dump it asap

[Kaine]

a mate told me recently that trueping has been advertised by Paragon on their website. and they are currently the no1 ranked raiding guild in the world, so they cant be all bad. they have a 20minute trial option to test. same mate does 25man raids on a 384k line and swears his latency doesnt go higher than 350ms

[KingBel]

Actually they don't mention the trial period duration on the website... but they do say that if you are using the trail version of trueping, you will be kicked off the server every 20 minutes. But I will try it out tonight and provide feedback. Quick question: should i disable all those other fixes like the leatrix one and the checksum offload one, before i try this?

[Kaine]

apparently the leatrix one with a proxy causes issues. it did with me when I was using battleping. however battleping was still in beta stage at that time. I bloody missed my guilds one and only lk25 kill because of that >.< are u talking about tcpack thingie?

[The Voice]

afaik leatrix doesn't need to be disabled. I use lowerping - my best latency has been 285ms - green ftw!

[KingBel]

sorry, can't go to lowerping's website from my office... can you tell me how much they charge per month for their service?

[KingBel]

Ok... that settles it.. Can't connect to Trueping or Lowerping servers using my connection. I will have to get another internet connection just for WoW :/

[Kaine]

try battleping then. they are pretty decent. used them for 6months til I couldnt afford it anymore.

[KingBel]

Can't connect to Battleping as well... tried them all. Seems like my isp has blocked that particular access. I enabled p2p just to check if it would make a difference (says that it only makes a difference to downloading, but I though "What the Hell"..).. Interestingly my latency dropped to under 1000ms, and I now find that my latency stays withing the 600 - 800ms range... but sometimes spikes to 1300 - 3000 ms.. I'm still not at a stage where I am comfortable grouping with players coz I never know what my connection will be like and don't want to end up causing problems for the group. Building quite a nice tank at the moment though :)

[Kaine]

well, 600-800ms is about normal with nothing else done. checkout the tcp-ack thingie in the sticky-thread of this forum too, and that with l\the leatrix latency fix is about all u can do other than changing ur isp to webafrica or someone else. in a nutshell some of the engineers at webafrica play wow, so they have enabled their lines so it gives wow the best access possible in this country. only thing is they are expensive in comparison to everyone else that isnt a cellphone company (except cell c)

[Fulmine]

PS: What are you using to connect ?

[KingBel]

Well.. I mentioned before that the building I moved into has been prewired for internet access. I pay R200 for uncapped internet access, but seems to be shaped quite badly. I can't connect to lowerping, trueping or battleping. I don't really want to go the adsl route since I am renting.. Perhaps I should look at using my cellphone for WoW?

[KingBel]

This is what the isp had to say:


Not here is no throttling on the ports, but the building is connected to our main Hatfield node via dedicated wireless links.
There are future plans to upgrade the links, but that is not in the near future.

I am sorry that we can not provide you with that function at the moment

[Kaine]

o.O my utmost sympathy to you then

[Endev8003]

Can you run updates through the built-in connection?

If you can, then perhaps look at using that for running updates, and getting 3G for normal play.

[KingBel]

I can do my updates through the current connection (downloaded the full 8 gigs the other day)... so it is possible for me to use a cell c speedstick for playing WoW and my current connection for downloading patches.. I just have to ensure that it does not download any patches in the background, but I saw a post earlier on about disabling that.

[Endev8003]

I can do my updates through the current connection (downloaded the full 8 gigs the other day)... so it is possible for me to use a cell c speedstick for playing WoW and my current connection for downloading patches.. I just have to ensure that it does not download any patches in the background, but I saw a post earlier on about disabling that.

That is a possible solution. I don't know how much WoW currently uses, but when I used 3G around the beginning of WotLK, it was about 20-30 Meg per hour, but I haven't checked recently.

Just a warning about the background downloading. I've noticed that it will download some stuff while playing even when you have a fully updated client. You can spot it when the icon appears, which is a black circle with a red/yellow/green rotating part inside that appears near the top middle of the screen. It usually finishes quickly, but I can't check my usage to see if it is anything big.

[KingBel]

Ok, got the Cell C 2 Gig stick today... been playing for the last 2 hours with a constant latency of roughly 650ms .. no spiking.. Connection dropped a few seconds ago so I had to diconnect and reconnect my cell c connection, but so far i'm reasonably happy. Much better than what I was experiencing before... and I only used 14 megs in the last 2 hours :)

[KingBel]

Ok.. this is strange and a bit frustrating. I have been using the Cell C connection for WoW for the past few weeks and my latency has been roughly between 700 - 1000 ms. Not great. Today I tried out my other uncapped connection (as mentioned above) on which I was previosuly getting 2000 - 4000ms... and tonight I was stable at around 400-500ms. While I'm glad that my latency is now much less, I am a bit pissed off that I went out and spent R1500 on a cell c speed stick that I now no longer need.(especially since I can only get Edge coverage in my area at the moment)