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How much bandwidth does tf2 (online gaming in general) use?

Created 27th July 2009 @ 12:36

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toasty.

PHX

I’m looking at changing isp. Zen has a reasonably cheap and well reviewed service £17 for 5gb per month.

I don’t do p2p, torrents or news groups. I have no concept of how much online gaming takes up?

FireStorm

-9m-

You will need more than that really, if not just for general downloads will soon eat 5gb a month up.

I use plusnet pro and i can track my usage. For a normal gaming night so that will be using voice comms as well. Playing from 7 – 12 It uses about appox 300 mb of bandwidth MINIMUM.

So say you play 5 nights a week ( sun – thus ) you will use

300 mb x 5 days x 4 weeks = 6GB per month. Then you will need download bandwidth for updates and patches and torrents ofc.

FireStorm

Koeitje

AUTOBOTS

£17 for 5gb per month.

O_O

SfynX

T2P

5 gig is really shreading the bandwidth, ive gotta 4mb unlimited donwload for 15 quid a month :D granted its with a package

Qun

GoT<3

Haha, datalimits ^^

Haha, datalimits ^^

Yeah, what is this nonsense?

Datalimits on internet is ridiculous in the days of unlimited mobile internet usage tbh.

toasty.

PHX

Oh so that isn’t that much then? I’m limited to certain packages because of my location. I agree that doesn’t seem like much.

I was just looking at adsl 24 which offers 30 gb for £18.90 but I can’t see them reviewed any where.

stko!

-9m-
-9m-

ADSL24: http://www.ispreview.co.uk/review/products/543.html

cheee

fa»
[SpA]

move to Germany:
20 € and you can call and surf with 6MB without a limit per month

Koeitje

AUTOBOTS

You get 20mbit for 20,- in NL.

(I’ve got 100/100 for about 7,50. Uni network :))

agron

Relic

I like my 110mbit for 40e. Could be cheaper though :x

FireStorm

-9m-

Internet in the UK is generally more expensive than on mainland eu.

While you want to try and find a ‘unlimited’ package keep a eye out for isps that throttle certain protocols and some ISP have inherently bad routing to certain services and will give you bad pings, these are hard to find out in advance but most common in package deals where they do not use the BT Wholesale network such as Tisical and Sky, sometimes they are fine sometimes you will get stuck with a 100 ping.

In regards to finding out what you can get go here http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/adslchecker.php this is the best adsl checker around and will tell you what you can and can’t get.

fJack

k^m

I like my 110mbit for 40e. Could be cheaper though :x

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klu

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If you guys think the UK has bad internet, try Ireland :X

Grem

rEJ
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Islanders always get the short end of the stick.

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