How much data does world of warcraft use
How much data do our favourite activities consume?
Data is everywhere. Every time we use an app, browse a website or create a call, we’re consuming information. It’s like the fuel for our digital engine and just as petrol allows a auto to run smoothly, data enables our online activities to function seamlessly.
Companies use data to realize our behaviour, preferences and needs and this information helps them tailor their services to gather our individual needs, improving our experiences and satisfaction. Think how Netflix uses your viewing numbers to suggest shows you might like or Amazon uses your browsing and purchase history to recommend products.
But data is not free, it comes at a cost, so if you’re wondering how much of it our favourite activities consume and how we can reduce that, peruse on.
Online video streaming
The popularity of platforms like YouTube, GO TV and others has skyrocketed. Whether it is watching movies, shows or live events, we adore to stream video content on our devices, however, doing so involves transferring large amounts of audio and video data over the internet, which makes video streaming a major data consumer.
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How Much Data Does Online Gaming Use? Spend Your Bandwidth Wisely
Online gaming has come a extended way from its humble beginnings in the 1990s. Back then, most people would go to gaming rooms or host LAN parties, as dial-up and adv cable internet were too gradual and unreliable for competitive gaming. Fast forward to 2021, and we have lightning-fast Wi-Fi adapters that allow 4k streaming and download entire music discographies within minutes. With these advances in internet technology came bigger and more bandwidth-intensive games. So, how much data does online gaming use these days? Let’s uncover out.
Gaming and Video Streaming - Myth vs. Reality
If you’ve ever experienced internet sharing (with family members or flatmates) as a gamer, you’re probably rather annoyed at other people in the household blaming your gaming habits for hogging up all the bandwidth.
Contrary to popular belief, average data usage while gaming online is much lower than what you may spend watching HD+ videos on YouTube or streaming your favorite TV shows on HBO or Netflix. Don’t consider us? Consider that Netflix can burn a staggering 3 GB per hour in HD mode and up to 7 GB per hour if you see 4k cont
How much data does WoW use per hour?
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.
People reporting usage as high as 70 gigabytes a month are completely misinformed. The only way you would use 70GB monthly on WoW is if you re-installed the game from scratch every month, which is silly. You certainly won’t be doing that.
You can use something like Glasswire (free) to monitor bandwidth usage by program, if you like. I’ve used it before to monitor bandwidth usage by various programs, including WoW. Sure, you can always check Task Manager to see bandwidth usage in a pinch, but Glasswire allows you to select one, any, or all programs in use, and monitor that usage over time, including peaks and averages, graphs, etc.
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Playing wow with a limited amount of go
Anirath-argent-dawn1
Hey everyone, I am having issues with my internet router lately. It’s not working and wont earn fixed before monday. My internet provider gave me a temporary box with a 100 move in it, can I exploit 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 hope for 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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anon203099572
Do you mean a 100gb connection? If so you’ll be completely fine.
Spambot-hellscream3
As Charctic says, 100GB should be much more than enough if you just intend to perform WoW. Casual internet browsing should be fine too. Stay away from downloads and streamed video.
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Anirath-argent-dawn4
It has 100 go and once those are used the box doesn’t work anymore basically.
anon203099575
So it’s the amount of numbers you have? 100gb should be fine so long as no one else is downloading enormous files or streaming too many high quality videos. WoW alone wouldn’t get anywhere close to using that by Monday.
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Hera
August 20, 2016
How much data?
So im moving today and won't contain internet for like a week or so but i still wanna pop back in wow for small periods to examine on my guild see whats new with people ect ect. If i just stay at goldshire and back and fourth to stormwomd and goldshire how much data will i exploit (personal hotspot from phone) at most lkke 1 hour a day. How much data will i consume? (Current frostwolf update with vanilla models)
August 20, 2016
This is an interesting question. I'm not very familiar with how facts usage is calculated, but I imagine you wouldn't be using too much. Maybe. Someone proper me on this if I'm wrong.
August 20, 2016
your best stake would be to test it yourself, as their are a lot of variables that will change the amount of statistics used.
August 21, 2016
You can't know for sure until you test it, but i would suggest to avoid the crowd go to a des