Bandwidth
 

Hello,

I played p99 a bit last year but have since changed ISPs to a data capped provider :( I was curious as to how bandwidth intensive p99 is?

Thanks

What is your cap?

I don't know the exact numbers, but they should be relatively low.

Bump for interest. Also switching to a capped ISP and am interested in typical bandwidth usage.

I am on satellite which is also capped and the bandwidth usage is minimal. I can play all day and my cap meter barely moves (although it is self replenishing after a certain point of non usage)

Given EQ's dial-up routes you can't be looking at more than 3k a second if a 28k modem was handling it.

Say 3k a second (to be liberal)... 180k/minute...10.8MB per hour?

Based on that, if you left it on 24/7 you'd be using roughly 264MB a day.

How much data did they give him I wonder? I know people on 2GB per month limit here...and all that represents is the opportunity to profit, because data costs next to nothing.

Thanks Swish.

Yeah, I'm in Thailand and my connection is pure garbage. The alternative is an aircard which is capped at 5GB/mth

I think swish's numbers are even a little high.

These old school mmorpgs use *nothing* in terms of data used. it's pretty wild.

to give you an example, a 'modern' mmo that is played on a smart phone (im thinking pocket legends in this case) can be played all day every day for the entire month and not go over a 2gb cap.

Trust me when i say EQ uses nil. But definitely someone should track it just to find out for sure :)

You might see brief spikes into the 7-10k range, but generally it's around 2-3k.

I mean, people used to multibox on dialup with no problem... even on 28.8k modems.

Edit: Just ran a small test on mine. P99 was using about 1.15k/s with login, 1 zoning (EC->NRo) and minimal fighting.

yeah, this sounds about right. you could safely assume these numbers remain constant throughout play

I'm with Swich. If band usage is an issue, I am just gonna guess classic eq is one of your least worries. It was designed for AOL remember.


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