EVE General Discussion

I see occasionally where people ask about how much bandwidth Eve uses. I never really seen a concrete answer, either because I never noticed it when I read the threads, or just never returned to the thread for an answer.

I have metered bandwidth. I was curious how much bandwidth Eve uses. So I got me a network meter to find out. I ran 4 accounts, 1 missioning, 1 salvaging & looting, 1 ice harvesting, and 1 in an Orca booster. I only ran about 4mb down and 2mb up over an hour on the 4 accounts. I did this over a couple of days, for a few hours

Taking math into equation, I'd assume you would most likely get 1mb down and .5mb up an hour per account. Of course you'd have to take into consideration what you're doing, such as PVPing or something else. It might be different from the simple stuff I was doing.

Anyway, I hope this could be of use to someone. Thank you for taking the time to read this. Have fun, fly safe!

I remember listening to some guy on a radio program trying to sound intelligent, talking about online gaming and metered bandwidth. It's people like that who start rumors of gaming being bandwidth heavy.

The patches and game clients on the otherhand. If someone were to come to this forum and read this, the things they need to know are those numbers.

12GB roughly to start playing EVE tommorow. After that it's not intensive.
As MMO's go, that's not too bad. Some games like Dragona and Perpetuum were small, one to two gigs but most are in the 10-15GB range. Ones like Aion, Rift and so on are between 30GB and 40GB.

- more specific info but I'm Canadian and there are 2 large providers here. (both have metered) A cable and a fiber optic phone carrier. I called my provider when a room mate tried netflix for a month and they bumped me up from 20GB a month to 150GB a month at no cost. All I had to do was call and ask. I also found out that it's $1.00 a GB after that up to a maximum of $60 overcharge, then it's back to unlimited. Not the mythical $6/GB untill I had a $2000 internet bill. It''s pretty much all hype really. The industry is too competitive to have hard metering rules.