Does anyone know how much bandwidth an online game like CS or RTCW takes up in an hour.

[NicColt]

Are we talking like 1 Meg/Hour or something like that. Does anyone know.

 

[cjsketchy]

back when I was in res at school, they capped us to 30meg download/day... I could hit that mark by playing a couple hours of cs online. So it's a lot more than a meg per hour.

 

[Mitzi]

I think the bandwidth for an hour of CS is be between 10 and 15Mb (well its around that figure for me).

 

[boran]

well, let us calculate a bit otherwise U wont believe the numbers ...

when I run a CS server (a HL mod) I can support 6 players on my 16 KB/s upload (which is then completely saturated) so each player gets 16KB/6 = 2,67 KB/s per player

so when u host an average CS server of 14 people u will have :

14 x 2,67 = 37,33 KB/s

which is: 37,33 * 60 = 2240 KB/min (= 2,2 MB/min)

and if we go for the hour :

2240 KB * 60 = 134400 KB/hr (= 131,25 MB/hr)


so the average CS server has an upload usage of about 132 MB each hour (rounded up cous there is also spraypaint upload/download etc)

NOTE : I used rounded off numbers in the post but calculations where done with the full numbers, so I calculated with 2,6666666666666666666666666666667 and not with 2.67 (using the windows calculator)

hope this helped a bit


whoopsey u where talking client (DOH) all that calculating fer nothing

well as client u have : 2.67 * 60 * 60 = 9600 KB/hr

it can vary a bit with rate settings etc, but this is quite close to it ....

 

[Czar]

Install a program like dumeter, start a timer, play for an hour and then see how much bandwith was used. I did it once and it was around 10megs or so.

 

[NicColt]

WoW thanks for the info, BTW I just found this little gem that calculates bandwidth per hour, day, week, month. I'll give it a try. It's called Down2Home and what's good about this is that it take count from the adapter and not from DUN or drivers.

BTW the reason I was asking was because Rogers (my cable isp) is going to start capping my bandwidth at 5/gigs a month.

 

[NicColt]

well I downloaded down2home 1.1 and for one hour of RTCW online play it was 11.00MB (exactly... weird) download and 6.23 upload for a total of 17.23MB/hour.