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Listed below are comments made by HardinUK between Tuesday, 21st October 2008 and Friday, 31st October 2008.

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An apology (in fact several) 12:31pm on 31 Oct 2008 In response to Rory's response:

I just want to echo what #16 said!

[i]"Either somebody has changed their internet habits after seeing your blog (or realising that you were writing a blog about it) or there are other forces at work."[/i]

As I highlighted in the original WoW post there is no way on earth that MMOs such as EVE Online, Lord of the Rings Online or World of Warcraft would be generating such high bandwidth usage on a regular basis.

The main culprit is probably downloaded music/video (IPlayer/YouTube etc). I think the fact that you started asking questions about it has actually made someone a little more careful about their internet usage!
The cost of Warcraft 11:54am on 21 Oct 2008 One final point...

I would suggest that if you are actually using 1gb a day that a lot more is going on than mere MMO and basic internet usage...

I think you need to spend some time investigating your son's surfing/downloading habits in a little more detail...

The Warcraft thing sounds like a bit of an excuse to be honest.
The cost of Warcraft 11:42am on 21 Oct 2008 This article is so out of touch it is almost cute.

As a current player of MMO's EVE Online, Lord of The Rings Online and a former player of World of Warcraft I can assure the author and anyone else who is interested in this subject that MMOs do not use up huge amounts of bandwidth.

Yes their patches can be quite large but as various people above have already pointed out these large patches tend to be fairly infrequent.

Indeed, most MMOs do their utmost to limit the amount of data that is shunted back and forth between the player and their server as more data = more lag = unplayable game.

As others have pointed out above World of Warcraft (and I also know EVE Online is the same) can be played on a standard 56k dialup connection - which certainly won't be pushing any bandwidth limits.

While many MMOs do have fancy graphics the processing of these graphics is done on the users PC and does not effect how much bandwidth the game is using.

In terms of general everyday bandwidth usage the main culprits tend to be downloading/streaming music and video content.

I work in a small office with a 25gb monthly usage limit. The only time we have ever come close to hitting this bandwidth limit was in August during the Olympics. The reason - everyone was using BBC's I-Player to watch the Olympics.

So I would suggest Mr. Cellan Jones looks closer to home before tilting at MMOs.

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