Amount of bandwidth used for WoW

[deveraux]

Does anyone know roughly how much data gets exchanged with the game server for say an hour of gameplay? I'm using my university network and I don't particularly want to hog the connection and get a nasty email from them threathening disconnection.

 

[CalvinHobbes]

You can get bandwidth monitor apps that will tell you that info.

http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/DU-Meter/3000-2155_2-10364912.html?tag=lst-0-4
http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/Bandwidth-Monitor-Pro/3000-2085_2-10338480.html?tag=lst-0-1

 

[Cheetah8799]

Originally posted by: deveraux
Does anyone know roughly how much data gets exchanged with the game server for say an hour of gameplay? I'm using my university network and I don't particularly want to hog the connection and get a nasty email from them threathening disconnection.

Don't worry about it. They are more worried about P2P file sharers and stuff.

And if you aren't doing anything illegal, they won't have grounds to disconnect you.

If you are really worried, track down the network admin at the school and ask him/her personally if it'll be a problem.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

i dont know the numbers, but i can assure you that you will not have a problem with this

 

[AdamSnow]

You wont have a problem.

I played fine over my 56k, and there aint much getting through that line... lol

 

[Aftermath]

I haven't tested World of Warcraft, but I did test Final Fantasy XI back when I was playing it. I wouldn't guess that World of Warcraft is much different.

After some 6 straight hours of gameplay, mostly in parties in heavy traffic zones, my average transfer speed over my ethernet connection was around 7KB/s. That was taken while using Comcast at 4mbps.

 

[Noema]

I've monitored it from time to time. Almost never goes over 50kbps down and 30kbps up.

 

[Mareg]

Originally posted by: Noema
I've monitored it from time to time. Almost never goes over 50kbps down and 30kbps up.

Lol I hope your talked in Kilobits and not Kilobytes ! Cause if its Kilobytes, you are under serious net hack.

 

[Noema]

Originally posted by: Mareg

Originally posted by: Noema
I've monitored it from time to time. Almost never goes over 50kbps down and 30kbps up.

Lol I hope your talked in Kilobits and not Kilobytes ! Cause if its Kilobytes, you are under serious net hack.

Kilobits, of course. That's why I used the lower case.

kbps= kilobits per second

KBps= kilobytes per second

 

[gsaldivar]

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
i can assure you that you will not have a problem with this

 

[LANMAN]

Originally posted by: Noema
I've monitored it from time to time. Almost never goes over 50kbps down and 30kbps up.

LOL!!! No wonder it works so well over a dialup!!

WOW has a sence of irony now, doesn't it.

--LANMAN

 

[LANMAN]

Now if you had a brand new install and you were upgrading it to the latest patch... :roll:

1.5 is 174Meg!! :Q

--LANMAN

 

[deveraux]

Thanks for the responses guys I'll just leave it for now and just see if they notice anything out of the ordinary.