Mr Thomsons claim is (imho) rubbish. Perhaps if you were playing Hearts across the net, but any modern fps type game running across the net will chew through the traffic like its going out of fashion.

My average traffic per month is in the region of 3 GB, I do zero file swapping, and minimal browsing. The bulk of my traffic is gaming, and the true figure would be higher but for me using the JSG realm about 50% of the time. (JSG is nice, but of course instant messaging, email etc does not work on there).

What would be nice is if I could maintain two pvc's (say normal internet on vpi 0 vci 100, and JSG on vpi 0 vci 101), one to the normal internet, and one to the JSG realm. If only Telecom would allow that...

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From: Paul Brislen <Paul_Brislen@idg.co.nz>
Date: 2003/11/24 Mon PM 03:45:57 GMT+13:00
To: lancewlt@xtra.co.nz
CC: adsl@lists.unixathome.org
Subject: Re: Online Gaming (was Changes to Telecom ADSL Network)

What kind of traffic does your average online game consume?

Chris Thompson from Xtra told me they were getting around 7-10 MB an hour,
while Microsoft's Xbox folk claim about 10-15 MB (if I recall correctly)...

I only once forgot to switch to the JSG realm before joining a server for a
game - you don't do that two months in a row.

BF1942 running at 40-70MB/hour would chew through the "average user"'s 500
MB rather quickly I would think.

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