how much does Guildwars download??

i have a problem...

i have a downloadlimit of 2 gb per month!
but last month i had around 2.8 gb so i had to pay a lot....

but i never had problems bevore with the limit...

so needs guildwars now more download?

i mean, how much mb do u normally download when u play in 1 hour(without updates)?
can u plz tell me?
if u have a tip for me plz let me know!

thanks man...

bigdwarfster

get a new ISP. But my guildwars takes up 1,001MB. I am guessing thats with updates.

Paying to download? I'm with ^ because thats just stupid. Change your ISP they are ripping you off.

The exact same thing happened to me when I had -I choose not to name them-, and they charged my father around 40 dollars more just because I downloaded the client for guild wars and installed it and so on.

To get to the point, it's a horrible thing to happen to you, I quickly changed my ISP, and have a fair 20 gigabyte download limit. Wheeee.

On another note, I see you've been using your Moderating powers to lock up several threads, Tsunami. Rarely have I seen so many threads locked up by the same Moderater in a short time since Savio o.o
(we all know that many members here at guru feel that he is a nazi :P)

I also love your new picture, what IS that hippo thing..?

I agree, we have the worst net in the western world and yet we still get unlimited dls, get a new ISP.

answering the original question, one hour of GW generally takes about 3-5 MB for me (on lowest graphics settings, it might be why).

An Hours time? I dont know, but in 1 gaming session I've noticed 500mb+ downloaded. For the Factions event.

BTW, game updates arent downloading anything, the "new build avialable" updating, is to apply whats already downloaded to your game mostly. (unless its a huge update, or you havent been on to stream the files).

what happened was they streamed most of a gig in new Factions content to us as a special event.

remember those monster downloads?

add those up and i have added over a gig to my GW folder last month.

running your own character should be about the same when it settles back down.

Definately get a new ISP. A limit on your downloads. That's incredibly gay. They should be shot for pricing like that.

thanks or all ur answeres but the problem is that i never had a problem with the download!

so u think that it's just because i hjave a better grafic option now?

i mean would it download less much when i have worse grafic?

if thats true i have to play ith worse grafic =(((


pls gimme a tip!

bigdwarfster

Ive the same thing (cept for 18gb a month) and they are the only provider around here besides 56k.

No GW will never eat up anywhere near that 2gb...even playing 24 hours a day.

It eats <1mb an hour from what ive tested. (It also probably depends on what you are doing...PVP seems to take more)

Its the updates that are killing you. The factions event was nearly a gig of content on its own. (that and stuff outside guildwars isnt helping)

Two guys above you answered that. It was because of the Factions Preview Event. They streamed a ton of data so people with dial up (like me) could actually participate. (It took me 4 full nights to download everything prior to the event)

What kind of ISP has limit????? I have never heard of that since I first use internet. I know some college might have restriction on internet using in dorms. But I don't know any other ISP has limit. Even the dial-up has no limit.

I've heard stories of the large British ISPs (BT, NTL) instating monthly download caps, although they're somewhere up around 30GB or so. It's not as infrequent an occurance as you might think.

Back in a former online life, when I used to participate in distro via BitTorrent for a particular anime raws group (Hi iWolf, Ohgami, Murasaki!), I would get occasional notices from Verizon's shiny-new FiOS group to tone it down a bit (nearly 24/7 semi-automated leeching/seeding of ~200-300MB .avi files from the XDCC bot/Azureus, delete when torrent is properly seeded, repeat ad nauseam - all while maxing out the upload of my 15/2 line and downloading gigs of stuff I'd never watch personally). "Tone it down, or else," said Verizon FSC.

Idle threats though ~_~

Most college towns only have one highspeed ISP, and it has a limit. (I dont even live on campus and mine is limited)

I got the cheap 10 dollar Verizon Dsl and from what I have seen it doesn't have a download limit from what I can see. So I would most definately look into a possible new Isp.

The joys of living in the dorms... unlimited downloading....
The joys of living at MTU....100$ fines for downloading music and videos......

Really though back home our provider never limited downloading. Just find a new provider.

change ISP and get cable


if ya in UK blueyonder is good
if ya in states..move to UK

That ISP sounds like pure ripoff.
So you can actually go over the 2GB without any notice and then you have to pay?

Most ISPs I know that have transfer limits do something else, they bring your connection down to dialupspeed and that's it. O.o
Want your normal speed back? Wait until next month or pay a small fee, etc...


Btw, I remember sitting around and watching the cantha download go up to over 500mb before I got bored.

That depends on the inital connection speed. I've seen 5mbps cable connections get downed to 300kbps when the quota was reached. Not 100%, but life isn't completely over when they do it.