how much data usage , on a cline

[diffinking]

hi chaps just looking to know how much data does being a client connected to someones cline use , as im on a capped isp

cheers ryan

[Manic01]

Maybe 1.5-2gb a year.

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cheers for the reply mate , i take it the better ping time that you have the better it will be for the csline , kinna like gaming , always want low pings/ latency , so you get a quicker response from the server

[TheCoder]

cheers for the reply mate , i take it the better ping time that you have the better it will be for the csline , kinna like gaming , always want low pings/ latency , so you get a quicker response from the server

For a typical 4 hours/day of viewing you could expect around 50Meg/month of usage but it depends on the system your using.

For ping times your correct, the lower these times are the more likely you are to get good performance.

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probably looking at 10hrs usage a day in our house as the kids watch cartoons ,


but thats not a problem , as i can sacrafice 2gig a week for my line usage

just i do alot of gaming , and was hoping it wont affect it ,

my isp plan is 30gig a month peak and 300 off

so i think il be ok

[TheCoder]

Even 10 hours a day is only 125Meg a month - nowhere near 2Gig and a drop in the ocean in comparison to 30Gig.

Your problem will be the gaming. Unfortunately, to work well both gaming and CS will require high priority access. If either has to wait for the other then you could face a potential timing bottleneck. Luckily, at this time, neither application should saturate your bandwidth so you should be ok. If gaming starts to consume large amounts of bandwidth though then it could be a problem.

[Manic01]

Test run by jimihendrix
As promised last week I have rerun the usage test and find my original errors were not as large as I first thought. This weeks total usage reading is 28MB (0.028GB) so it would take 250 days to use 1GB or put another way approximately 1.5GB a year.
Again this setup was used for around 15 hours a day for the 7 days so represents fairly heavy usage.
For members on a limited internet allowance the actual monthly usage would amount to around 0.12GB a month note this is just 12% of a 1GB/monthly allowance.

[bugaloo41]

Manic cheers for that (or JimiH) I knew it was relatively small but didnt appreciate how small - very helpful post mate.