Don't think so, especially since you'll more than likely use alot of bandwidth browsing too.

I'm going by /rate 25000 by the way, which is roughly 25kb/sec

Also the gametype you play is probably a factor, 1v1 would use less bandwidth than 5v5 NTF.

4 hours a day for a month is about 2.5GB for q3

on a 6GB limit, that leaves you 120MB per day for everything else.

There are several methods to lower q3's data usage.

- cl_packetdup 0 is the most obvious.
- cg_optimizebw 1 (2 can also be used but it's not recommended)
- and the ultimate bw saving cvar is cl_maxpackets 30... but then you'll warp and everyone will hate you.

cg_optimizebw client wise is deprecated AFAIK
cl_maxpackets 63 is the sweetspot, 125 eats too much and as you said 30 sux

i'm guessing he's talking about download - if so, maxpackets and packetdup are meaningless.

fu, read the docs

strangely enough i get whined at for being 'hard to hit' with maxpackets 63.

You send less data, you hit less and you warp more.

If your connection can handle 125 there's really no reason whatsoever for using 63.

bandwidth is expensive in africa :P

also: as i understand it, if you are running at 125 fps a maxpackets of 100 is equivalent to maxpackets of 63?

Yea it's exactly the same afaik. You can sort of check it by using cl_showsend 1 and changing cl_maxpackets.

And the "bandwidth is expensive" is a really crappy excuse. You're a cheap bastard so you ruin games by warping? Download one less porn per month and q3's bw usage evens out.

Youre ok, and your provider should give you a place where you can check the stats so you can figure yourself.

Someone deleted my posts, as usual. I had a very nice, long, and informative post here about the subject, but I guess that's not useful to anyone!!!!!

It said that I assume you are talking about downloading and not uploading, but 25kB/s rate is a MAXIMUM, not an average. Quake 3 hits nowhere near that on average, although the average does vary, as Liam says.

25kB/s, 4 hours per day, for 30 days is 10.8 GB (or roughly 10.059GiB), not 2.5GB, and that's only one way. If you are only doing some surfing, that MIGHT be sufficient, but with today's websites, full of flash and other fluff, it's a tough call.

I would try looking for another ISP, if you can [assuming this is an ISP limitation].

your post probably didn't get deleted, its just going to be linked under some random other thread, thanks to how screwy ESR is at the moment.