Hey everyone, I am having issues with my internet router lately. It’s not working and wont get fixed before monday. My internet provider gave me a temporary box with a 100 go in it, can I use that to play wow until my regular box gets fixed or is it going to drain the 100 go super fast ? And if I can, do you know how many hours I can expect it to work ? I should mention I am not the only one using the box, but I am the only one playing games. Thanks for the help.
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Do you mean a 100gb connection? If so you’ll be completely fine.
As Charctic says, 100GB should be much more than enough if you just intend to play WoW. Casual internet browsing should be fine too. Stay away from downloads and streamed video.
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It has 100 go and once those are used the box doesn’t work anymore basically.
So it’s the amount of data you have? 100gb should be fine so long as no one else is downloading huge files or streaming too many high quality videos. WoW alone wouldn’t get anywhere close to using that by Monday.
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Can you explain what a “100 go” is? You mean data rate?
I wish I could be I am tech ignorant. I think it kinda works like those phone subscription where can “use” only a certain amount of data per month. Like if you have a 50 go subscription then you can only use that much per month.
Then follow the recommendations of the others above. I personally would even stay away from browsing regularly.
On my Xbox sometimes my Data Consumption in a Month can go up to 350GB even when only playing Games like Destiny 2. It really depends on the network infrastructure of the game. But since WoW has dedicated Servers it should be fine.
WoW alone wouldn’t get anywhere close to using that by … a long. LONG time! WoW’s data transfer is incredibly small by modern standards. It was written for the days of dial-up modems. All that gets transferred are position changes and state changes. Maybe 10-20MB/hr? Probably less.
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So you have 100GB data to use per month?
WoW averages about 10kB (kilobytes) or less per second during gameplay. So, that’s - on average - 600kB per minute, or 36 megabytes an hour.
So, in 5 hours of gameplay, you’re transferring about 200 megabytes, give or take. Slightly more if all you do is raid or large BGs. Slightly less if you do more solo play.
If you do this daily, that’d be about 6 gigabytes a month.
So if you don’t install the game from scratch or patch things you should be fine!
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I don’t know most of these words but I get it, thanks for the advice everyone. Hopefully everything is fixed on monday.
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Best bet…play the game for an hour, then check how much you’ve used. That way if there are hidden charges etc, you can gauge it. In the end, weigh up the importance of actually having a connection until Monday, also bear in mind, companies are known for not hitting repair targets.
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