100megs + per raid night

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Murdoc

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Hi

Ive been using 100megs + per raid night with vent:eek:. Surely that cant be right? Can you recommend something that monitors my connection and i can see wtf is chowing it.
 
Vent eats up bandwidth big time, thank goodness my guild doesn't use it.

There is actually no need for vent, my guild raids without it and we done MH and BT already, doing Sunwell now.
 
Dude ive been raiding with vent pre TBC and its neva been this bad. I thought it was MH waves eating it. But last night we didnt do any waves and i used 117 megs :S
 
Well my normal usage is always around 20 - 30 Megs per session, in the past with vent it was around 100 megs per session, depending on how much chatter is going on in vent ofc.
 
Get the person that owns/operates the Vent server to check what codec it uses. High end codecs chews through your cap at a massive rate. You can get them to set it to a lower quality codec - the lower the quality, the less bw it will use.
 
I'd rather use the higher quality codec and be able to hear clearly whats happening.

I've had it before when they dropped the quality and it was so ****ty they changed it back.
 
agerbon said:
Well my normal usage is always around 20 - 30 Megs per session, in the past with vent it was around 100 megs per session, depending on how much chatter is going on in vent ofc.
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I have a hard time believing that vent generates that much traffic. I'll keep an eye on it.

My usage has always been more than 100MB per night. I started noticing it last year already, basically I log on between 17:30 - 18:00, do my dailies, get ready for raid, connect to vent at around 18:30 talking nonsense and then onyl disconnect from vent at around 0:00.

Also as Chris Rock said : I can drive a car with my feet if I really wanted to, but that dont make it a ****ing good idea !! Same goes for raiding without voice comms, obviously it can be done, but it makes it so very much more fun and easy to coordinate.
 
I totally agree with you, it is fun with voice commands but with the addons we have now its just has easy.

I couldn't believe it either, but yea it totally killed my bandwidth, but I agree the high end codecs will eat through your bandwidth. Probably should of checked that back then when I was using Vent.
 
Using Teamspeak2
Avarage raid usuage is 57Mb, regardless of where we raid... MH or karazhan it is always around 57Mb
Never used Vent, but then again I don't see the need for it. Have even used Skype once for some group instancing, worked to about 100Mb for 3 hours then.
 
Its cause you in a raid grp, which will use more bandwidth.

Leave your toon for a couple of hours in a non populated area and see how much you use.

Also stop surfing porn sites while raiding.
 
agerbon said:
There is actually no need for vent, my guild raids without it and we done MH and BT already, doing Sunwell now.
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Kalecgos is evil without vent, the raiding groups are using /gchat to scream

/g STAR GROUP GET YOUR FREE EPIX IN THE PORTAL etc ;)
 
Crowley said:
Why don't you just use WoW's ingame voice?
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Ever tried using this? It is absolutly CRAP! Icreases latency by 100-200ms! can't handle more than 5 people without nearly crashing the game...
Go read on the official forums how many more problems are associated with it.
 
Its cause you in a raid grp, which will use more bandwidth.
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Well thats kinda duh
its neva been this much thou, I have changed guilds and its probally their higher codec vent

Can any1 recommend an app that monitors whats happening live. So i can see if theirs anything using bandwidth in the background or if vent is omfg sucking
 
werries2 said:
Ever tried using this? It is absolutly CRAP! Icreases latency by 100-200ms! can't handle more than 5 people without nearly crashing the game...
Go read on the official forums how many more problems are associated with it.
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I havent had 1 problem with it, with 10 people chatting away while on trash

We used it before our TS server was up and running, with the enitre raid playing from SA we didnt notice the lag spike cos we would all feel it :p
 
Same problem here. Last time we cleared BT in 1 evening, I used 150mb. 4hour raid + Vent. Its imba fun, but damn its expensive. I now dc from vent during trash and only connect on bossfights. Saves a bit but its still crazy.
 
WiT8litZ said:
Same problem here. Last time we cleared BT in 1 evening, I used 150mb. 4hour raid + Vent. Its imba fun, but damn its expensive. I now dc from vent during trash and only connect on bossfights. Saves a bit but its still crazy.
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Ima do the same from now on. Uking nabs can /w for summons :p
 
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