domaine Posted September 8, 2008 Report Share Posted September 8, 2008 I am thinking of purchasing the ATT wireless plan for my laptop, the USBconnect881. For $60.00 a month you get 5GB/month (not unlimited, as most people presume) Does anyone know how much GB bbo uses when we log in and play or kib? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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manudude03 Posted September 9, 2008 Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 I'm pretty sure you're talking kilobytes, nevermind MB or GB. 5 GB will go a long way unless you want the entire video games collection or top million music songs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcurt Posted September 9, 2008 Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 I'm pretty sure you're talking kilobytes, nevermind MB or GB. 5 GB will go a long way unless you want the entire video games collection or top million music songs. Nope, actual numbers for 45 minutes of typical activity (including 9 hands of pretty random MBC bridge) was about 2.5 MB down and 0.5 MB up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helene_t Posted September 9, 2008 Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 Can't you get it cheaper? I pay 15 pounds/month for 3GB for Orange Mobile Broadband in UK. It is not as stable as I would like it to be, yesterday I was to play a tourney with kfay but got red just after it started :) I am very sorry, Kevin. So make sure you have good coverage where you plan to use it. xcurt: thanks for the numbers. Did you use the win client or the flash client? I suppose the flash client needs slightly less bandwidth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uday Posted September 9, 2008 Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 The version of BBO that runs in your browser, available at http:/www.bridgebase.com/ is less bandwidth hungry, probably a lot less bandwidth hungry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrothgar Posted September 9, 2008 Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 If you're reasonably technically inclined, there is a decent product out there call Ethereal that you can use to monitor packet flows in and out of your computer. You can use this to develop bandwidth profiles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcurt Posted September 9, 2008 Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 The version of BBO that runs in your browser, available at http:/www.bridgebase.com/ is less bandwidth hungry, probably a lot less bandwidth hungry. Sorry, I should have added, this was BBOFlash. Full stack was Linux (centos 5/i386/latest kernel)Ffox 3.01Flash 9.latestBBOflash latest Full disclosure -- it also doesn't include the ad. Curt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uday Posted September 9, 2008 Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 I wouldn't worry about coming anywhere close to the 5G limit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted September 9, 2008 Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 I'm pretty sure you're talking kilobytes, nevermind MB or GB. 5 GB will go a long way unless you want the entire video games collection or top million music songs. Nope, actual numbers for 45 minutes of typical activity (including 9 hands of pretty random MBC bridge) was about 2.5 MB down and 0.5 MB up. Did this include logging into BBO? There's probably more downloading going on then -- the flash client has to be downloaded if it's not cached, then you have to download the list of tables, etc. Once you actually start playing hands, I expect the traffic drops down significantly. It shouldn't take much bandwidth to download 13 cards, then the bids and plays as they occur, as well as occasional chat and scores. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred Posted September 9, 2008 Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 Did this include logging into BBO? There's probably more downloading going on then -- the flash client has to be downloaded if it's not cached, then you have to download the list of tables, etc. The Flash actually downloads very little information compared to the Windows client during the login process. The Windows client does receive a complete list of all tables, their properties, who is online, what they are doing, which tournaments are running, pending, and complete, the state of these tourneys, etc... The busier BBO is when you log in, the more data must be sent to the Windows client. I am guessing that this amounts to between 500K and 1MB at an average time of day. The Flash client receives little more than a list of friends, stars, and yellows who are already logged in plus data pertaining to whatever vugraph broadcasts happen to be running at the time. For most users at an average time of day this probably amounts to no more than 10K or so. You are correct that if the Flash client is not cached, it has to be downloaded. That means more than an addtional 1MB of data. Good news is that the caching mechanism seems to work well in almost all popular browsers. Fred GitelmanBridge Base Inc.www.bridgebase.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ant590 Posted September 9, 2008 Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 Wow, that does seem expensive - but I'm used to UK prices. I managed to get a 3G from three 5GB/month for £7.50. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domaine Posted September 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 Thanks so much for all the help!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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