> 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.

Exactly - Although I do believe we could expand on this to include games
that were designed with a 28k8 modem in mind (which would be what ? any
game that is around the 5 yearold mark ?)

at 10Meg/hour we are talking a whopping 22k/sec - now, most games you see
in the shops recommend at _least_ a 56k modem, why not a 28k8 modem if you
only use 10Meg an hour ?

The Xbox people recommend at _least_ 128k DSL, citing that the 64k up in
australia is not enough, which would then tend to indicate that the Xbox
is using at _least_ 30Meg an hour, in _one direction_ (60Meg/hour in both
possibly ?) and that it is quite likely to exceed this (hence the minimum
requirement of 128k)

Are you sure your Microsoft people quoted you right there paul ?

> ============================================================
> 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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