online play and montly caps

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Hi, now that the conncetion issues have been fixed (yay!) i've found that my line's not good enough cos i share with people. i'm thinking of getting my own connection. i'm in the uk so there's a few high speed wireless carriers but the typically have a usage cap of 1-3Gb/month. anyone have any idea of how much is used in a typical online match. thanks MrL
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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

I don't personally know the answer to your question, but I need to chime in and say useage caps are horrible and I wouldn't tolerate that at all.

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

agreed Proxi,

but this is completely wireless carriers designed for light usage whilst commuting. hence the caps aren't normally an issue.

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

I suspect your ping would be pretty awful using wireless 3G broadband for gaming here in the UK, I seem to remember a PCGamer article where they gave it a go a while back and basically it was not good enough for gaming. You'd be better off paying for a better communal line (which would be cheaper), though tbh the bandwidth usage of DG should probably be quite low so I'm not sure why having a shared connection would be a problem anyway (unless the others are constantly dling/uploading on bittorrent). Hope that helps - Boffinboy

Reply #4 from Demigod Forums Top

Thanks Boffinboy,

i'm in london so i should be able to get pretty close to the advertised 7.2mbps (though no idea how this relates to pings).

as for getting a better line, this might work, but it's tied into a whole sky deal so probably a lot of hassle. not sure what people are doing with it, i've asked if they're torrenting and been told no, just getting fed up (as well p*ssing others off) spiking half way though a game.

ho-hum, guess i'll go with changing the wpa keys when i wanna game }:)

Reply #5 from Demigod Forums Top

It's likely that the ping is just down to the way mobile broadband works, independent of the actual throughput speed. I would imagine though that Sky will let you upgrade the current package that you have to include faster broadband, it shouldn't be complicated at all.