Online gaming - how much network traffic?

[Taz]

I've started to really get into Xbox Live gaming and was wondering how much of my 50GB of network usage (peaktime) I could be eating into. Say someone was gaming online for 1-2 hours a day: are we talking MBs or GBs of network usage?

[kidzer]

I wouldn't expect it uses much more than regular Web Browsing, so long as you aren't using it 24/7 and downloading heaps from XBL, I wouldn't worry

[MadduckUK]

a couple of bandwith calculators iv looked at put it at around 90MB per hour. so at 2 hours a day thats roughly about 5.5GB a month.

[daza]

I wouldnt worry about it tbh, I'm capped at 50gb by BT, and I waws on xbox live 24/7 when I had the free trial and downloading a heap of stuff from it and using my pc at the same time I think I calculated I hit about 45gigs that month.

[markyp23]

The most I've used in a month is rougly 6GB. Those were some tough times though - . Nah that was way too much gaming

[aidanjt]

I've started to really get into Xbox Live gaming and was wondering how much of my 50GB of network usage (peaktime) I could be eating into. Say someone was gaming online for 1-2 hours a day: are we talking MBs or GBs of network usage?

If someone were gaming online for 24 hours a day, we're still talking a few hundred MBs, to a few GBs a month, depending on the game.

[markyp23]

If someone were gaming online for 24 hours a day, we're still talking a few hundred MBs, to a few GBs a month, depending on the game.

That's a bit of an underestimate, mate. It's still very little though.

[kalniel]

I never got near my 3gb cap, gaming roughly a couple of hours a day. But that was on PC games not XBox.