Online Gaming bandwidth usage

[Antono]

I know this is a 'how long is a string' question but...

on average how much traffic, in and out, would an online game like counterstrike generate per hour/day?

 

[Bjorn]

well looking at my smoothwall logs it uses about 5k up and 5k down.

 

[R4tt3xx]

"Twice the distance from the middle to one side"

 

[Skip]

Isn't it around 60 meg's an hour?

 

[RoosTa]

In the good old days when I was playing BF2 it sucked around 50mb an hour and BF2 is very bandwidth intensive. I'm sure that CS:S is alot less than BF2.

 

[Vox Populi Vox Dei]

Depends what server you play on. ADSL-only server use up about 40MB-50MB/hour while the normal servers use between 20-30MB/hour.

 

[Antono]

Thanks for the responses. I guess I have to install a 3rd party firewall i.e. smoothwall to be able to look at usage sensibly? I don't believe windows has this functionality?