[sldev] Cache speed experiment & results..

[Dale Mahalko]

For WoW, bandwidth usage depends on your play style. WoW is completely
playable as a single player on 30 kbit dialup, though voice cannot be
used. I know because this is what was stuck with using, for two years.

Also up to 5-man groups are playable, with a good 40-50 kbit
connection, though there can be lag in busy fights, and still no voice
is allowed.

Larger groups are generally not possible on dialup, and entering a
massively crowded city area (like IronForge, before there were
multiple auction locations) would lag out and knock a dialup player
offline.


But even for raids the bandwidth doesn't go much over 256 kbit, so WoW
is fairly lightweight. But just remember that it has around 9
gigabytes of data precached on every player's computer and that is
only changed via infrequently-applied large unified patches..

- Scalar Tardis / Dale Mahalko


On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Callum Lerwick <seg at haxxed.com> wrote:
> How much bandwidth does WoW take