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Article from link above:
Some of you may have heard about the ISP Comcast's new 250 GB per month bandwidth caps. We've even gotten a few emails asking how this is going to affect WoW players. You can set your minds at ease: this will not affect us in any significant way.
The highest bandwidth I've ever heard of WoW using at a time is 30 KBps; this is in situations like raid fights or zoning into a city when there's a lot of data flying around. So if WoW was always running at peak bandwidth, 24x7, you'd be looking at around 70 GB per month, a sizable chunk of your cap. However, I rarely if ever see it go as high as 30 KBps; typical usage is more like 5 or below, often even in the sub-1 KBps range. And nobody plays WoW 24x7 all month, I hope.
Let's say your average WoW bandwidth is 2 KBps, which I believe to be a reasonable estimate. That comes out to about 7 MB per hour. So to estimate your monthly usage from WoW, multiply that 7 MB by how many hours you play a day (on average), then by 30. The average WoW player is on for something like 20 hours a week, which comes out to 600 MB per month - about 0.2% of 250 GB. Even if you were on 24x7 all month, you'd still only be looking at 4.8 GB, less than 2% of the cap. [Edited to fix numerical mistakes]
In short, you won't have to cut back on WoW to stay under a 750 GB per month cap.
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This still worries me...I 5box wow but I also play tf2 and fps's tend to be big hogs, let alone normal surfing + podcast downloads + constant youtube abuse and a few other hoggish non-torrent things...I hope 750 is the nontypo, if it's 250 and that's not enough for me I'm gonna have to move ISPs quick-like...
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I don't like the idea of a cap, but I haven't even come near a 250gb cap in 2 months. I pay $75 for 15mbps/4mbps FTTH connection with no cap.
July 14- Sept 3
Total Traffic
Incoming (MBytes)
113980
Outgoing (MBytes)
30824
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Dunno what ur guys are used to in the states but i guess its unlimited, like in some countries in europe.
on mine, unfortunnetly there was always this trafic max per month.
until recently, i changed from 30gb/month to 60gb/month, because it was free. i only laughed because, i didnt even noticed what my wow consuming was before i changed, never had any problems with trafic. i play 4/5 hours a day and... everyone seem in panic because of this :|
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To be honest, I'm not too panicky at the moment. I simply dont know how much traffic we use right now so I dont know if I have anything to worry about.
Me and my wife both play wow and both of us use the web extensively (downloading/streaming episodes of TV shows and anime usually). That and, if she was to pick up multiboxing (which she probably will) it could be a problem.
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Unless you start 100+ boxing 24/7 you can estimate wow's bandwidth usage at 0 for the purpose of this cap. The only way I can see anyone getting close to the cap that isn't on purpose(as in downloading things that you'll never use 24/7), is by streaming a lot of HD video. Even then I'm not sure if you'll reach it. I'm assuming anyone planning to set up a 20+ box is smart enough to not download wow + bc + patches 20+ times regardless of their bandwidth caps...
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I pretty much have a stream of HD Video going all the time. I am usually watching either american tv shows or asian dramas. and they are running nearly all the time when I am home, whether i am working or playing wow at the time. So this I am slightly worried about how much bandwidth I am using atm with a cap being placed in sight.
I am not used to this bandwidth cap thing :(
