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"download limits for gaming"

just about to sign up for broadband and looking at wanadoo with a 2gb a month cap. if i were to game for a few hours each day without downloading music/vids etc, would i exceed this limit?

just about to sign up for broadband and looking at wanadoo with a 2gb a month cap. if i were to game for a few hours each day without downloading music/vids etc, would i exceed this limit?

Easily I'd say, 2gb realy isn't that much, especially for online gaming.

Capped packages are crap if you're gaming. They're really for casual web browsers.

I don't really know how much data's transferred during gaming, but I reckon you could get there quite easily when combined with browsing and any other things. 2 gig a month seems really stingy though, I mean I can easily clock up 2 gigs in a few days/maybe a week. According to my router I've downloaded 1.7 over the last three days and I finished my last big download last weekend.
Which is making me curious as to quite how I've downloaded so much.

nice one fellas, looks like i'll be blowing a few more cobwebs off my wallet!!!!

smivvers wrote:
> nice one fellas, looks like i'll be blowing a few more cobwebs off my
> wallet!!!!

I have AOL Broadband and would suggest it for about £28.99 a month, however if your short of money go for Tiscali Broadband (3x father than dial up) for a mere £15 a month. Hope this helps!

There's no way in hell you'll get near 2GB a month through just gaming, although bandwidth caps suck anyway.

Forest Fan wrote:
> I have AOL Broadband

Do not listen to this man.

Yes. AOL is utter rubbish. It mucks up your settings and stops you from changing them, slows down your connection, and is generally unrelible. If you want Broadband, get BT or Freeserve/Wannadoo.

i have bt broadband and dowload loads and i mean loads of big roms and never have any probs 29.99 a month but well worth it