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Taryn Ceridwen
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Posted - 2006.03.08 08:10:00 -
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So I am working away from home and my addiction to EVE is just too strong! My mobile phone provider offer a connection spped of 374 kbs which, theoretically at least, should be enough to connect to EVE. However there is a download limit of 56MB per month.
My question therefore is will this download limit have affect me playing? I have looked at all the technical info but cannot find anything on packet / data transfer size. Please could one you lovely technical bods out there tell me roughly how much 'playtime' I can expect - minutes, hours, days......or am I being totally unrealistic?
Many thanks in advance for all your help
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Heikki
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Posted - 2006.03.08 08:54:00 -
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If you check this another thread you'll see folks estimating the bandwith usage.
 Originally by: B03S
days:
Thursday 2 march.. 3.84Mb down / 0.17Mb Up
Friday 3 march.. 1.07Mb down/ 0.13Mb Up
Saturday 4th.. 1,79Mb down / 0,18Mb Up
I usually play upto 3 hours on weekdays and 6 hours/day in the weekends
So looks you'll have pretty many hours of playing available. Oh, and this time, don't keep clearing the cache..
-Lasse
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Taryn Ceridwen
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Posted - 2006.03.08 09:18:00 -
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Edited by: Taryn Ceridwen on 08/03/2006 09:17:52
w00t - thanks for the link Heikke and the speedy response. Life in Birmingham has just got a little better 
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Thercon Jair
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Posted - 2006.03.08 11:32:00 -
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I'd disable the avatar loading on clicking the picture/placeholder. Think that might keep the download-rate low.
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Xanthia Di'Makir
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Posted - 2006.03.08 17:06:00 -
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Edited by: Xanthia Di''Makir on 08/03/2006 17:08:36
Originally by: Thercon Jair
I'd disable the avatar loading on clicking the picture/placeholder. Think that might keep the download-rate low.
On the contrary. I'd guess that it takes less that 50 bytes to transfer an avatar. If you remember from character creation, it's nothing other than a set of selectors (hair, lipstick, etc.), and 4 2d sliders for "face" shape. I'd bet that all they do is send those parameters, and generate the avatar client-side.
That being said, to the OP I do exactly what you're describing, I have GPRS service on my mobile. Bandwidth isn't the issue, I have about the same throughput as a 56k modem. What may get you is the brutally high latency. I'd tend to stay clear of combat, the lag might put you in a pod. However, manufacturing, sales, etc. are just fine.
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Emperor D'Hoffryn
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Posted - 2006.03.08 20:18:00 -
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I played on an airplane over the satalite internet connection they had. Actually worked pretty well.
I was playing EVE while I flew over Iceland. Ah, what a crazy world we live in.
Originally by: Drayce
Between the learning skills and the tutorial, Eve is like a firewall against the attention deficit kids 
I like it this way
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Intahnet Supahstah
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Posted - 2006.03.09 05:30:00 -
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Originally by: Emperor D'Hoffryn
I played on an airplane over the satalite internet connection they had. Actually worked pretty well.
I was playing EVE while I flew over Iceland. Ah, what a crazy world we live in.
haha, yeah, crazeh cool!
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Azur
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Posted - 2006.03.10 22:31:00 -
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I used to play alot on a vodafone 3G card and it works really well. I don't remember the exact numbers but logging in for the first time in a couple of days used 200k or so and after that usage is tiny, 2mb for a 3 or 4 hour session. These are all from memory but it's been 6 months or so.
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