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D'ceet
Omega Fleet Enterprises
Executive Outcomes
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Posted - 2008.09.02 20:38:00 -
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how much bandwith does EVE-O take up for a *very active* player, because in the coming month, Comcast will be capping the bandwidth usage, so anyone have a clue on how much is used?
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Trebor Notlimah
Lone Star EVE Group
Veni Vidi Vici
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Posted - 2008.09.02 20:40:00 -
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 Originally by: D'ceet
how much bandwith does EVE-O take up for a *very active* player, because in the coming month, Comcast will be capping the bandwidth usage, so anyone have a clue on how much is used?
Quit Comcast & sign up with a competitor. Problem solved.
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Posted - 2008.09.02 20:41:00 -
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bumping because im generally interested in this too.
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Minmatar
Kasrkin Innovative Assembly
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Posted - 2008.09.02 20:42:00 -
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It's nice to know. But I think you won't have to worry about the caps. The caps are at like... 200GIGs? I doubt EVE-Online uses anywhere close to near that.
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Asestorian
Sebiestor tribe
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Posted - 2008.09.02 20:43:00 -
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Aren't they capping it to like 250gb or something?
Anyway, EVE doesn't really use a huge amount of bandwidth. EVE on it's own won't make you hit any cap unless you're on a really ridiculous provider. It's your other, larger, downloads and things that you need to be careful with.
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Destiny Balls
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Farrqua
Minmatar
Turbo Mining Inc.
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Posted - 2008.09.02 20:44:00 -
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Capping at 250 per month. If the Cap is a worry, then EVE-O should be on the bottom rung some where in priorities.
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AlienX AXS2
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Posted - 2008.09.02 20:46:00 -
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Edited by: AlienX AXS2 on 02/09/2008 20:49:31
Edited by: AlienX AXS2 on 02/09/2008 20:48:39
Edited by: AlienX AXS2 on 02/09/2008 20:46:12
well seeing as EVE Online is run from 60 Blade Servers ( atleast i think it was 60? ) i would most likely say they have their own uncapped ISP inside the data center, or if it is capped it would probs be around the 10 TB mark, i would say that 1 player uses around 5kb/s in game...
Math time!
5 x 40000 players = 200000k/b which is 195mb/s
60 seconds in an minute, which is 11700mb a minute - thats 11.42 GB a minute
60 mins in an hour which takes us to a massive 685.2GB an hour
24 Hours in a day = 16444.8 GB a day - which is 16.05TB a day
30(ish) Days in a month = 481.78 TB a month
all that from 40,000 players going at 5kb/s... (if my math is correct!!!, sorry if its not - ive allways been very bad at maths)
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sableye
principle of motion
Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate
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Posted - 2008.09.02 20:48:00 -
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probably use more bandwidth surfing the forum
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Trebor Notlimah
Lone Star EVE Group
Veni Vidi Vici
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Posted - 2008.09.02 20:51:00 -
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I run eve from my teathered blackberry and it monitors data amounts - it isnt alot.
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Andrue
Amarr
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Posted - 2008.09.02 20:52:00 -
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Edited by: Andrue on 02/09/2008 20:56:04
The Comcast limit is 250GB which is a huge amount of data. You'd have to download several full-length movies every day for a month to hit that. How on Earth anyone can even find that amount of data legally let alone actually use it is beyond me. You'd pretty much have to be spending every waking hour watching movies and TV shows that you had downloaded from the 'net - and we're talking DVD quality here not some crappy catch-up TV offering.
As for Eve - its usage is insignificant. A few tens of kilobytes a second at most. Probably less than a dozen megabytes a month for most people.
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Blane Xero
Amarr
The Firestorm Cartel
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Posted - 2008.09.02 20:53:00 -
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Originally by: AlienX AXS2
Edited by: AlienX AXS2 on 02/09/2008 20:49:31
Edited by: AlienX AXS2 on 02/09/2008 20:48:39
Edited by: AlienX AXS2 on 02/09/2008 20:46:12
well seeing as EVE Online is run from 60 Blade Servers ( atleast i think it was 60? ) i would most likely say they have their own uncapped ISP inside the data center, or if it is capped it would probs be around the 10 TB mark, i would say that 1 player uses around 5kb/s in game...
Math time!
5 x 40000 players = 200000k/b which is 195mb/s
60 seconds in an minute, which is 11700mb a minute - thats 11.42 GB a minute
60 mins in an hour which takes us to a massive 685.2GB an hour
24 Hours in a day = 16444.8 GB a day - which is 16.05TB a day
30(ish) Days in a month = 481.78 TB a month
all that from 40,000 players going at 5kb/s... (if my math is correct!!!, sorry if its not - ive allways been very bad at maths)
dododo
He meant for the player, the eve servers are based in London (England) so commcast has nothing to do with it.
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Qordel
Caldari
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2008.09.02 20:54:00 -
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Originally by: D'ceet
how much bandwith does EVE-O take up for a *very active* player, because in the coming month, Comcast will be capping the bandwidth usage, so anyone have a clue on how much is used?
You're not going to reach your cap playing an MMO.
Using online video services (netflix, amazon unboxed, hulu, vongo, fancast) and streaming radio services and video podcasts and podcasts and other modern services is what will drive up your usage.
And for those *****ing about those of us who use a lot of bandwidth and whine about it. How would you like it if Comcast told you that you're only allowed to watch 60 hours of cable television a week, even though you pay full price for it and then they didn't offer you an option to buy more time. And everyone else told you that 60 hours is more than enough television for ANYONE and that you should STFU?
I telecommute. I run a very large website as well. I play a lot of games and download a lot of demos. I listen to a lot of streaming audio. I use online movie services. I subscribe to a lot of large podcasts and video casts. That's my prerogative. F-you.
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AlienX AXS2
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Posted - 2008.09.02 20:54:00 -
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either way its cool to know how much BW these guys are paying for... and bandwidth is not cheap in london ( i know myself )
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Ruges
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Posted - 2008.09.02 20:56:00 -
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Originally by: AlienX AXS2
24 Hours in a day = 16444.8 GB a day - which is 16.05TB a day
dododo
Only 23 hours in an eve day
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Imogen Filiotov
Amarr
Cerulean Sky Fire Industries
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Posted - 2008.09.02 20:58:00 -
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Does EVE get daylight savings? lol.
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D'ceet
Omega Fleet Enterprises
Executive Outcomes
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Posted - 2008.09.02 20:59:00 -
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for a reference:
"250 GB/month is an extremely large amount of data, much more than a typical residential customer uses on a monthly basis. Currently, the median monthly data usage by our residential customers is approximately 2 - 3 GB. To put 250 GB of monthly usage in perspective, a customer would have to do any one of the following:
* Send 50 million emails (at 0.05 KB/email)
* Download 62,500 songs (at 4 MB/song)
* Download 125 standard-definition movies (at 2 GB/movie)
* Upload 25,000 hi-resolution digital photos (at 10 MB/photo)"
so it is quite a bit of space to work with
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AlienX AXS2
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Posted - 2008.09.02 20:59:00 -
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Originally by: Ruges
Originally by: AlienX AXS2
24 Hours in a day = 16444.8 GB a day - which is 16.05TB a day
dododo
Only 23 hours in an eve day
smarty pants :p
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Locke DieDrake
Human Information Virus
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Posted - 2008.09.02 21:01:00 -
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Originally by: Qordel
Originally by: D'ceet
how much bandwith does EVE-O take up for a *very active* player, because in the coming month, Comcast will be capping the bandwidth usage, so anyone have a clue on how much is used?
You're not going to reach your cap playing an MMO.
Using online video services (netflix, amazon unboxed, hulu, vongo, fancast) and streaming radio services and video podcasts and podcasts and other modern services is what will drive up your usage.
And for those *****ing about those of us who use a lot of bandwidth and whine about it. How would you like it if Comcast told you that you're only allowed to watch 60 hours of cable television a week, even though you pay full price for it and then they didn't offer you an option to buy more time. And everyone else told you that 60 hours is more than enough television for ANYONE and that you should STFU?
I telecommute. I run a very large website as well. I play a lot of games and download a lot of demos. I listen to a lot of streaming audio. I use online movie services. I subscribe to a lot of large podcasts and video casts. That's my prerogative. F-you.
Not to get all righteous on you... but if you run a website off your comcast connection... you are in violation of their TOS and you're account will be destroyed.
That being said, I think comcast is a nasty piece of work as a company and I long ago stopped using them. Yes, you have a choice, it's not between good and better.
My bandwidth monitor says I used 2.5 tb of transfer last month. Suck it comcast.
/me goes back to playing with the pretty fiber line. //no, not FIOS, actual dedicated fiber. It's expensive. Like more than your rent. My company pays for it at my office and I piggy back it with wifi from down the street.
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Kephael
Caldari
LEAP Corp
Ursa Stellar Initiative
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Posted - 2008.09.02 21:04:00 -
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Edited by: Kephael on 02/09/2008 21:04:53
I heavily use my Comcast connection and am lucky to use 45gb/mo. Mcafee firewall tracks bandwidth usage for me. Eve probably is lucky to use 1gb in a month of heavy play. I don't see how an above poster used 2.5TB through a wifi connection, you must have some sort of torrent/movie addiction.
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Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2008.09.02 21:04:00 -
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Originally by: D'ceet
how much bandwith does EVE-O take up for a *very active* player
a gig per month, tops... most likely less
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Res Tance
Caldari
Deep Core Mining Inc.
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Posted - 2008.09.02 21:05:00 -
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Easy answer: I currently have cap of 40GB. I play EVE a lot and never get anywhere close to it 
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Andrue
Amarr
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Posted - 2008.09.02 21:08:00 -
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Edited by: Andrue on 02/09/2008 21:08:43
Originally by: Locke DieDrake
My bandwidth monitor says I used 2.5 tb of transfer last month. Suck it comcast.
Residential use? I don't believe it - at least assuming you really mean 2.5TB. There aren't enough hours in the day to use that amount of data. I'd estimate it to be 40 standard definition movies a day. Hell - it's probably over a dozen high-definition movies a day.
...and that's assuming you can find enough sources to provide that amount of data in that period of time.
Tbh if you're really downloading 2.5TB of data from the Internet then you're doing it wrong. The whole point is to access data that is remote to your computer not to suck the whole damn' internet onto local storage 
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Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2008.09.02 21:09:00 -
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There's 3 people using separate machines in my home on the same connection, and peak usage was around 100 GB.
A typical month doesn't even get close to 50 GB.
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Jordon Spikes
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Posted - 2008.09.02 21:13:00 -
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well, my baudwidth is normally 36, but if i goto the restroom it goes don't 1 or 2 but if i eat it goes back up to 36.
hope that helps. ;P
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Slim Goodbody
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Posted - 2008.09.02 21:22:00 -
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Originally by: Trebor Notlimah
Originally by: D'ceet
how much bandwith does EVE-O take up for a *very active* player, because in the coming month, Comcast will be capping the bandwidth usage, so anyone have a clue on how much is used?
Quit Comcast & sign up with a competitor. Problem solved.
<3 trebor
Even though the cap will likely not affect you... do this ^^^
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Arous Drephius
Perkone
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Posted - 2008.09.02 21:24:00 -
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Originally by: Andrue
How on Earth anyone can even find that amount of data legally let alone actually use it is beyond me.
Rainbow Tables, streaming radio etc. Pretty easy if you're really trying. |
Sorum Daemoth
Insidious Existence
RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2008.09.02 21:26:00 -
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Shit man Rogers here in canada i hear is capping at 60gigs now 
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Farrqua
Minmatar
Turbo Mining Inc.
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Posted - 2008.09.02 21:27:00 -
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Edited by: Farrqua on 02/09/2008 21:28:47
Originally by: Slim Goodbody
Originally by: Trebor Notlimah
Originally by: D'ceet
how much bandwith does EVE-O take up for a *very active* player, because in the coming month, Comcast will be capping the bandwidth usage, so anyone have a clue on how much is used?
Quit Comcast & sign up with a competitor. Problem solved.
<3 trebor
Even though the cap will likely not affect you... do this ^^^
Comcast is a terrible company.
They are all about the same. They are all pretty terrible. It just depends on your individual expereince.
The use the exact same kind of poilicies, customer service and so forth and so on. I have Charter...and my budy has comcast. He has the better deal from where I am sitting.
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Locke DieDrake
Human Information Virus
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Posted - 2008.09.02 21:31:00 -
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Originally by: Andrue
Edited by: Andrue on 02/09/2008 21:08:43
Originally by: Locke DieDrake
My bandwidth monitor says I used 2.5 tb of transfer last month. Suck it comcast.
Residential use? I don't believe it - at least assuming you really mean 2.5TB. There aren't enough hours in the day to use that amount of data. I'd estimate it to be 40 standard definition movies a day. Hell - it's probably over a dozen high-definition movies a day.
...and that's assuming you can find enough sources to provide that amount of data in that period of time.
Tbh if you're really downloading 2.5TB of data from the Internet then you're doing it wrong. The whole point is to access data that is remote to your computer not to suck the whole damn' internet onto local storage
The connection is for and paid for by my company. Because we are a website based company, and because we peer our server at our office (and offsite). I use WIFI to send that connection to my house, which I then **** it daily for massive amounts of data.
Even as we speak, I've got half a dozen torrents running and at least one automated website backup going. There is 15 gigs right there.
I don't usually have trouble finding sources that are fast, especially on the torrent network... there are more people out there like me than you would think. (meaning we have very very fast connections)
Also, how many people do you know that have a 20U rack in their living room? I do, and it's full.
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Nuran Mukadder
Amarr
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Posted - 2008.09.02 21:33:00 -
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Originally by: AlienX AXS2
60 seconds in an minute, which is 11700mb a minute - thats 11.42 GB a minute
hrm...
It's actually 11.42 Gb, not 11.42 GB - so divide everything after this point by 8.
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