World of Warcraft - Meg per hour

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

BLaZor said:
Normally i get 50ms in u.k servers and s.a servers 120ms
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You get 120ms from uk to SA servers? Amazing, since thats not possible.. What are you using? Lazer technology?
 
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!
 
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).
 
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.
 
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
 
lol!

sorry... this thread got a tad funny... 120ms... :D
 
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!
 
I think blaz0r is more confused than trying to sound cool 8-)
 
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