Online Time/Cost Affording?

Flyboy30126 · Oct 23, 2015

Maybe someone can give me a clue. I have an online account that gives me 300gigs per month. After that it cost $10 for every additional 50 gigs. My question is "How do folks afford to play HOURS/DAYS on end? I played Battlefield 4 on Origin and WOW, I almost used up 1/2 my month.
Oh and my connection speed is 1.0gbs. It's fast. THANKS!!

mmaatt747 · Oct 23, 2015

Playing BF4 online did not use 150 Gigabytes. It's just not possible.

bignastyid · Oct 23, 2015

Not everybody has a data cap on their internet connection.

USAFRet · Oct 23, 2015

Flyboy30126 :

You have a gigabit connection, but a cap of only 300GB per month?
BF4 did not use up 150GB. Can't happen.

Flyboy30126 · Oct 23, 2015

mmaatt747 :

Maybe I stated my question wrong, but maybe someone can tell me an average of playing for say a couple of hours. THANKS for the reply!!

Flyboy30126 · Oct 23, 2015

Yep, 1.0gbs and 300 gig total allowed before charging. Any ideas on how/where to get a better deal? THANKS!!

USAFRet · Oct 23, 2015

Flyboy30126 :

This would require knowing where on the planet you reside, and what is available in your area.

Flyboy30126 · Oct 23, 2015

USAFRet :

Georgia, Comcast right now THANKS

mmaatt747 · Oct 23, 2015

Flyboy30126 :

I couldn't give you a # but it would be measured in megabytes... not gigs.

Are you sure you haven't just used 1,500 MB, which is equal to 1.5 Gigabytes?

Flyboy30126 · Oct 23, 2015

maybe that's it, I just checked after playing, and I usually keep up with the gigs, I was at about a little over a hundred and played and when I later checked
it was way over. I just thought it was the online gaming. I guess I was wrong. I usually allow myself 10gigs a day (10 X 30 = 300) but don't use the 10 every day, so that math works out. THANKS for all the answers. Guess I can play online now and not worry. THANKS AGAIN All!

USAFRet · Oct 23, 2015

Flyboy30126 :

Well, what else is available at your residence? Sometimes this depends on which side of the street you live on.

Flyboy30126 · Oct 23, 2015

USAFRet :

Flyboy30126 :

Charter, Atlantic,Comcast.

Well, what else is available at your residence? Sometimes this depends on which side of the street you live on.

USAFRet · Oct 23, 2015

All I can recommend is...look at each of them and compare.
Bandwidth, monthly cap, and price.

Flyboy30126 · Oct 23, 2015

THANKS USAF Ret, I'll look into it!! Flyboy

jaguarskx · Oct 23, 2015

What other things do you do online? Do you watch videos? Video generally takes up a lot of bandwidth.

You can use a program to monitor your daily internet usage.

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/monitor-internet-usage/

James Mason · Oct 23, 2015

Data Caps are BS, I'm surprised Comcast is giving you one actually. If it was a Verizon 4G data plan or something I could see it.

nukemaster · Oct 23, 2015

I would like to add to this that game patches/updates also eat up bandwidth.

MMO games have lots of patches as well.

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