FFXIV data usage?

What is the average amount of data that ffxiv uses? I will be moving soon and unfortunately going from unlimited internet use to a capped 10gb limit per month.

I've really been enjoying the game lately and don't want to give it up quite yet, but with that limit... I'm not sure how much I can play.

You should be fine w that kind of limit....however if you are concerned about your bandwidth usage....there are bandwidth limiting programs out there, so you could set a max download and upload speed for a specific program. I did this with xi while at work, cuz w/o it on it was really apparent that i was hogging all the bandwidth ....and yeah boss didnt like that much.

It really depends on how congested your server is. The S/R numbers at the corner is actually the about of kb (kilobit not kilobyte!) is currently being used, so no the game by itself doesn't use alot of bandwidth. It's actually theoretically possible to play this game on dail-up however the latency will kill your performance with the game.



You should be fine as long as you don't download alot of things off the web, torrent, or use HD video streaming services like Netflix or Hulu Plus.


Though 10GB would be murder for me lol. I can easily use 500GB~1TB in a month. (seeds alot)

I ran a usage logger while playing for an hour awhile back and was right about 10mb/hour. Hope that helps.

I am so sorry you're being capped. It's just terrible.

I've been logged in for 7 hours doing Cutter's Cry runs and have used around 44MB in that time between the two connections FF14 establishes, at an average rate of 1842 bytes per second.

I play FFXIV through the 3G on my phone and it has a 10GB limit per month. All I can say is, be careful with whatever else you do while playing.

Besides FFXIV, things like Youtube and even forum browsing can eat away at your data.

My pals uses dial up still and he plays just fine :) True story

you'll be just fine playing the game. I'm on satellite and have the worst bandwidth cap you could amagine and I don't even dent it with FFXIV. Farmville uses more bandwidth then this game.

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Originally Posted by Zahak

My pals uses dial up still and he plays just fine :) True story

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How does he update his game client?;)

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Originally Posted by Dhalmel

How does he update his game client?;)

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My guess is "Very, very slowly"

Want to know how much data FFXIV uses?

CTRL+ALT+DEL (before you open FFXIV or it will crash)

In task Manager go to "Performance" Tab

Then "Resource Monitor"

In the "Resource Monitor" Click the "Network" tab.

It will show you the data traffic for every application on your PC, in both (per second) and (total)
** Note, its in BITS per second. NOT Kbps **

You need some math if you want to figure out how much data you are using.

8 Bits = 1 Byte
1024 Bytes = 1 KiloByte
1024 KiloBytes = 1 MegaByte
1024 MegaBytes = 1 GigaByte

Thank you all for the reassurances! Although I know a lot of the game is already downloaded to the computer I had no idea how much new data is actually being received each time I play. Not nearly as much as I was thinking, thank goodness!

And thank you Doctor Mog on finding out how much data programs use! This will be a great help in helping figure how I can change how I browse the net and play games before I have to change internet services.

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Originally Posted by Dhalmel

How does he update his game client?;)

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My guess is he drives over to Dhalmel's house and copy's the patch file onto a disk or thumb drive. Because lets face it that's probably faster then actually getting the patches over a 56k connection

Or if he's stuck in the 90's he'll go over with a box full of floppy drives :D (still faster than downloading a few 100mb at 56k)

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Originally Posted by Fear

Or if he's stuck in the 90's he'll go over with a box full of floppy drives :D (still faster than downloading a few 100mb at 56k)

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Remember 'Oregon Trail' on the big ol' 5 1/2 inch floppy disks?

...I miss elementary computer time.

That's true lol. I drive it to him xD