<p>Hi guys,</p>
<p>My college has an 8 GB per week per student usage limit. Im an avid video gamer (although I wont be playing much during my postsec studies), in addition to a serious student. I know that im going to use lots of GBs for studies and stuff for the entire week, I still dont think the remaining GBs will be sufficient to play for the weekend. Do you think 8 GB per week is needed(btw engineering)</p>
<p>You’re not gonna use “lots of GBs for studies” unless your studies involve downloading music</p>
<p>edit: AFAIK video games actually don’t use a lot of bandwidth.</p>
<p>Video games don’t use that much bandwidth. 8GB a week is a sh`itton. Unless you’re streaming crap all the time, I wouldn’t worry about it.</p>
<p>Resnet? Good ole Resnet…</p>
<p>I’d be pretty angry about an 8GB/week cap if I was living there. I remember how much crap there was when Comcast started their 250GB/month limit (which they don’t seem to be enforcing, since I’m pretty sure I’ve been over that a few times and not had any problems).</p>
<p>Will they actually shut you down after 8GB/week, or did they just pick a number and are only really going to shut down people moving insane amounts?</p>
<p>Most games only use a few kb/sec, so I wouldn’t worry a whole lot. The only thing that could matter is if you’re trying to download a lot of games (legally or not).</p>
<p>My college has a 2GB bandwidth limit a day. I was pretty annoyed (particularly since they advertise legal means to get entertainment online not to mention updates to maintain computers can be huge) until I found out they don’t mean real bandwidth, they just meant it as an upload limit. It’s meant to discourage torrenting.</p>
<p>Check with your campus and see what they specifically mean by “bandwidth.” I would also recommend downloading a bandwidth meter to keep an eye on how much you use daily/weekly.</p>
<p>its actually usage, according to the college website its checked weekly.</p>
<p>Haha yes its ResNet. And no, it doesnt include downloading music illegally. So 8 GB/week is enough to play 0.5 hour to 1 hour of video games a day (although I dont think I’ll ever have the time!)?</p>
<p>Really? How lame. My campus is using ResNet as well, but ours is only upload that’s limited =/. I asked to be sure since many of my classes have heavy online video watching as homework. I think they leave it purposely vague, though, to discourage heavy internet usage.</p>
<p>Are you positive it’s true bandwidth usage? As in the website says it’s upload and download that is counted? If it doesn’t, I’d ask to be 100% sure. It makes no sense to me to limit download as well when updates to computer programs can be huge. It’s like saying you need to choose between your required internet usage for classes and keeping your computer safe. And especially now since a lot of the student deals on software are turning towards downloading instead of a physical product (and charging an obscene amount for a “back up disc.”)</p>
<p>As for knowing how much bandwidth you’re using while gaming, definitely download a bandwidth meter and see what you use on a typical day. I did this to see what I use for webcaming and VoIP calls. I only hit around 700MB of upload leaving the webcam connected for 24 hours.</p>
<p>…8GB? What kind of internet do you guys have at home?!</p>
<p>Holy Crap. That’s more than I have a month and I don’t use it all, and I watch all the videos and download all the music I want…</p>
<p>What in God’s name do you use 8GBs for?! </p>
<p>I couldn’t use that much in a week if I tried…</p>
<p>Yeah, I don’t think any games use more than 10kb/sec which works to 36 MB/hour. It would take ~28 hours to hit 1GB.</p>
<p>You can also find out if public computers are monitored under your account for bandwidth usage or not. If you’re really that worried you could always hit up a library to download whatever large files you’re using and throw them on a USB device (considering you can get a 32GB thumb drive for, like, $40, this isn’t that huge of a hassle).</p>
<p>Also, often times files being hosted on the school’s own network don’t count towards the bandwidth limit, so if you’re downloading things from your professor’s website or off of a network drive then it shouldn’t be a concern.</p>
<p>The only way I’d really worry about it is if I’m downloading lots of large games or wanted to host servers.</p>
<p>yeah its really unfair. internet is one of the 69 unalienable rights (along with free copyrighted music) you are entitled to sit on your butt and waste time plyaing vid. games all day</p>
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Like others above said, what on earth are you talking about?</p>
<p>My school also has an 8GB/7-day period limit. If you go over, they throttle your connection for a week or something. I don’t really play games anymore, but even when I was an avid gamer a couple years ago I never got anywhere close to the limit.</p>
<p>I don’t know of a single game for which that would not be enough bandwith (even taking account all other normal non-gaming activities).</p>
<p>You can download something called ‘netmeter’ that’ll tell you how much bandwidth you’re using, if you want a real idea of how close you’re actually getting to 8 gigs.</p>