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#22632 3-Jun-2008 17:53
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1) Anyone else here currently playing ?

2) How many MB per hour do you go through when playing it ?
Ive seen people saying about 5-10mb an hour depending whats going on (in a raid etc or wandering around with no other players) but want a couple of other opinions....
Dont want to blow my data usage out of the water ;)




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  #135248 3-Jun-2008 18:26
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Wow uses very little bandwith around 3-8 KB/s when solo or in a party and around 3-15 KB/s in a raid.

KB meaning kilobytes.

One thing you might want to do is turn off the background downloader (which downloads content for new patches in the background) and download the patches manually (dare I say at work lol) from filefront, ausgamer or whatever gaming download site...

Background downloader FAQ:  http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?articleId=21070

Here's an example of the usage while idle in ironforge:
http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/9241/bandwidthzv8.jpg



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  #135291 3-Jun-2008 20:20

I remember getting averaging anywhere from 10-50 MB per hour. Thats both upload and download.

No longer play WoW.





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#142104 2-Jul-2008 08:25
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What's WoW??



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  #142109 2-Jul-2008 08:34
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foke: What's WoW??

Google is your friend.







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