Bandwidth

[Doutreligne]

Very simple question; How much bandwidth does this game use?

Thank you.

[neighbortaru]

Re: Bandwidth


hard to say exactly, but it can be played fine over 56k

[Doutreligne]

Re: Bandwidth

Let me put it this way, how much can this game use when it's using the maximum?

[neighbortaru]

Re: Bandwidth

like I said, hard to say. why does it matter?

[Doutreligne]

Re: Bandwidth

Because we have this system at home that counts how much traffic you have, and lately it has skyrocketed and I would wanna know if it's caused by FFXI.

Edit: I'm sorry if I'm vague or if this sounds weird but I need to know and this is the best way I can describe it. >.<

[Icemage]

Re: Bandwidth

FFXI uses minimal bandwidth even at maximum capacity in heavy traffic zones. The netcoding is very efficient.

If you're seeing severe network traffic increases, it's more likely that your bandwidth usage increased because of a recent installation of a data-streaming application, such as a BitTorrent client like Azureus or uTorrent, a P2P file sharing client like LimeWire, streaming live audio/video feeds such as on news sites or radio station sites, or perhaps an audio/visual transmittal program such as TeamSpeak or Ventrilo.


Icemage

[sevenpointflaw]

Re: Bandwidth

So far as I can tell by my own network monitoring, updating FFXI doesn't throttle bandwidth. Playing however is another matter, and so far as I can tell its throttled at around dialup speeds. Running 6 copies of FFXI simultaneously off one cable connection doesn't even put a dent in my network usage.

[Aeni]

Re: Bandwidth

So far as I can tell by my own network monitoring, updating FFXI doesn't throttle bandwidth. Playing however is another matter, and so far as I can tell its throttled at around dialup speeds. Running 6 copies of FFXI simultaneously off one cable connection doesn't even put a dent in my network usage.

I don't know. There's something going on with how the data is being handled by the router. I know I am not in the minority of multiple-accounts over a router when I say that on occassion, I'm seeing a marked increase in the number of times one of the accounts online gets d/c but none of the other accounts are affected.

In other words, I can d/c on my PS2, but my PC is still connected and doesn't experience lag. About 15 minutes later, it then reverses as the PC gets into trouble but my PS2 is fine.

Maybe SE doesn't like multiple accounts coming from one IP address. They think we're RMT or something >_>