So how much bandwith do xbox games take up?

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#1 greendude123
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I mainly just play MW3, and BF3 online for the xbox, but just hit my 150gb monthly cap (first time so no charge). Was just wondering, about how much does it take up for 5-6 hours? Also if anyone knows how to moniter it on the PC, that would be great, would like to see how WoW does.

Think i chewed up 150gb this month from watching ALL of Star Trek Enterprise, and alot of Bones on netflix haha

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#2 Uloset
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Can't be much at all as I have a slow 1 mbps DSL connection and I never have lag and also have no problem when tons of voice chatting is going on.

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#3 greendude123
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ah, i dont have any lag or anything, i just want to know how much Bandwith im actualy using, so i can avoid the next "Cap" from AT&T
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ah, i dont have any lag or anything, i just want to know how much Bandwith im actualy using, so i can avoid the next "Cap" from AT&Tgreendude123
Gaming doesn't take much bandwidth. Downloading stuff and streaming netflix does though. I'd say monitor your usage of downloading and streaming.

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#5 Uloset
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ah, i dont have any lag or anything, i just want to know how much Bandwith im actualy using, so i can avoid the next "Cap" from AT&Tgreendude123

I just meant it in the sense that it could be using much at all if a 1mbps connection works fine. If I was using all of my 1mbps down-path and .5 up that would only work out to be roughly 8.5MB a minute. Really though it is probably using half if not less of my connection speed more like 3-4 MB per minute. Play for six hours straight at that rate and maybe you use a Gig.

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Varies significantly by game. A quick search pegs MMOs like World of Warcraft at 20MB an hour and more actiony games like Battlefield 3 at about 80MB an hour. Not very much compared to general web browsing.