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    Gaming on a capped broadband service...

    As I'm shortly moving house (moving in with the in-laws for a few months), and they've got a capped download connection I was wondering if that's going to be a problem with playing online games. I mostly play World at War (COD5) & BF3. I would guess that BF3 would be the worst offender for downloading, but will gaming generally eat the download allotment?

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    Re: Gaming on a capped broadband service...

    What's the cap? how long do you play for? it all depends

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    Re: Gaming on a capped broadband service...

    Don't know what the cap is, but I usually play for 2-3 hours a day if I get on.

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    Re: Gaming on a capped broadband service...

    I would be suprised if BF3 uses much traffic, probs say 10-15KBps?

    any VOIP fgoing along with it would probably be the thing which screwed u up.

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    Re: Gaming on a capped broadband service...

    I have just moved to a 40gb cap. I play WOW for 2-3 hour a day with Skype and the odd bit of CS:S

    My mrs uses the Internet for just browsing for a fair amount each day as she is home with the kid an I maxed my limit in 28 days.

    If that helps!

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    Re: Gaming on a capped broadband service...

    Quote Originally Posted by HoldenBurn1000 View Post
    I have just moved to a 40gb cap. I play WOW for 2-3 hour a day with Skype and the odd bit of CS:S

    My mrs uses the Internet for just browsing for a fair amount each day as she is home with the kid an I maxed my limit in 28 days.

    If that helps!
    Your mrs is watching something online

    My mrs is constantly watching iPlayer or other online tv/films each evening, I do a fair bit at the weekends, and we both play a lot of steam games, but we use around 35gb a month.

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    Re: Gaming on a capped broadband service...

    Lol, yes she does use Iplayer a lot :-p that's all. Honest!

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    Re: Gaming on a capped broadband service...

    40GB Cap would be gone in 3 days for me

    Online gaming doesn't really use much bandwidth though, go crazy

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    Re: Gaming on a capped broadband service...

    As everyone else has said, what really burns bandwidth is streaming video (and big downloads, obviously). Just in-game data packets shouldn't be an issue (although if you do hit bandwidth limits I bet your in-laws will blame it on your gaming ).

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    Re: Gaming on a capped broadband service...

    Quote Originally Posted by Pancake View Post
    40GB Cap would be gone in 3 days for me

    Online gaming doesn't really use much bandwidth though, go crazy
    40GB cap can be done in 2 games from Steam. e.g. RAGE is 21GB, Arkham City is 17GB

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    Re: Gaming on a capped broadband service...

    But we are on about playing games, not downloading them

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    Re: Gaming on a capped broadband service...

    Quote Originally Posted by Pancake View Post
    But we are on about playing games, not downloading them
    To play BF3, you need to keep it up to date, and with the patch that's supposed to be coming out, it wouldn't surprise me if it's bigger than 5GB.. Based on what they say they're going to change.

    So that definitely has to be taken into account when playing online games..

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    Re: Gaming on a capped broadband service...

    Download it somewhere else....?

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    Re: Gaming on a capped broadband service...

    Quote Originally Posted by Pancake View Post
    Download it somewhere else....?
    I don't know if BF3 updates are downloadable as separate files tbh, I've only ever downloaded them straight through Origin.

    If it's possible, then definitely do it that way, providing you can download elsewhere, but otherwise, it's going to have to be taken into account.

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    Re: Gaming on a capped broadband service...

    Quote Originally Posted by Hoonigan View Post
    I don't know if BF3 updates are downloadable as separate files tbh, I've only ever downloaded them straight through Origin.

    If it's possible, then definitely do it that way, but otherwise, it's going to have to be taken into account.
    I cant confirm it tbh, i dont play any games lately. Far too busy

    I would think you can, if not its a terrible idea to make it that you cant get them on another PC

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    Re: Gaming on a capped broadband service...

    Simply playing games online wont hit your cap (unless it's stupidly restrictive), but it only takes a patch here, a map or 2 there, a bit of iplayer/youtube and then it'll start adding up very quickly.

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