RayW
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clubs: | Can any Warcraft users report what the usage is?
It would be interesting to see what TW considers high usage.
Peak and average would be nice (using something like AnalogX Netstat Live).
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nokiatech
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| WoW requires very little actual bandwidth. It's the latency that matters. There are many who live near their west coast servers that play with no issue on dialup connections. You can do it from the east coast but latencies tend to rise quickly.
Grandma downloading pictures of the grandkids is using much more bandwidth then a wow player. |
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Cabal
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WoW uses less than 5 KB/s up or down at any given time while playing (as noted, latency is critical). BitTorrent-based patching will use a lot more, obviously, but I doubt that's relevant here.
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S_engineer
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Chicago, IL | Wait a second...............
Its not like they're picking on a particular game, wouldnt they would have to be looking at consistent bandwith usage to consider someone a "hog"?
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Mike
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Re: Can any Warcraft users report what the usage is?
Just take a look at the size of this technical support thread on the official forums;
»forums.worldofwarcraft.com/threa···27&sid=1
25 pages long of NY TW issues. |
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1 edit | As a past TWC new york subscriber that was always connected to jersey over ssh so noticed latency issues with every keystroke my money is on the usual suspect: overloaded nodes. People don't notice that so much unless they are in a game where lag is immediately visible. Then it becomes very noticeable.
Maybe 1 out 100 "average" web users would bother to report congestion to tech support (if that!) but I can imagine 50 out of 100 WOW addicts gnashing their teeth and documenting every jump in latency. |
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edhalen
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clubs: | You got it right. Overloaded nodes.
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