So in the last month or so I have noticed that on my grind days I have been using between 3-5GB of data per day (8-14hour days) with little to no other net browsing or downloads or anything else. This is far more than anything previously

Has anyone else noticed an increased use of internet recently? Poker sites are constantly updating their software and I am wondering if updated versions of some sites are using more data now

Anyone with any knowledge about this would be great.

Fwiw I play on stars, ipoker, 888 and ongame

3-5 GB a day?? Sounds high to me.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/28...s-use-1189892/

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/28...poker-1104932/

1 gigabyte of text is 700,000 pages. That's a lot of HHs.

Yeah sounds super high to me too. Done a fair amount of investigation before my suspicion of the poker sites being the problem but it may just be something else.

I would be interested to hear what the standard data use per hour is on all the major sites though

My understanding is that the connection to the server of the site uses up X amount of internet data under the cap with an ISP. In light of this im not sure how I understand this

Get a program like BitMeter which tells you the rate at which you are downloading and uploading. Use it with no poker sites open and see what the reading is. Then open the poker sites and see if it spikes.

3-5GB a day sounds very high. 3GB a day would be ~10 42minute tv shows in pretty good quality.

You could have a virus that is pinging the world from your machine.

Full Tilt still lists 56k dial up as the minimum required connection speed:

http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/about-u...m-requirements

I used to 4-table Stars on 56k no problems

From 2008:

Nice find - I was sure Josem had posted figures before, but didn't come across them.

So with those figures, 24-tabling for 10 hours would be less than 250 mb/day. That was 5 years ago, but I can't see any reason that the amount of data would have increased anywhere remotely in the neighbourhood of 10 to 20-fold.

Perhaps Josem will pop in with updated figures at some point.

last time i checked i used around 5 mb a day multitabling for a couple of hours.

Check if any of the neighbors are leeching your wireless

OMG .... Michael J PokerStars should get a medal!

He is seriously funny.

Hi,

I've consulted with the leader of our Network Operations team. He has confirmed that the PokerStars client still uses a similar amount of data.

Conceptually, if you are playing Zoom poker, you might see slightly more data use (since you are playing more hands) but it should all remain in the same order of magnitude. Similarly, if you keep Multi-Table Tournament lobbies visible and updating on your screen, you might see a further small increase, but certainly not in the order of gigabytes per day.

It is very unlikely that your PokerStars client would be using 3gb of data a day: it is probably something/someone else using that amount of data. That said, if, for some reason, you think that this is the case in your situation, please email support@pokerstars.com so that my colleagues in the Technical Support Team can work through your unique and individual case.

Sincerely,

Michael J
PokerStars Communications Team

P.S. I'm glad knircky likes my sense of humour. I knew I would find someone, somewhere, who did. It only took me 32 years.

Sounds like it could be the 888 video streaming.
or a simple 0 miscalculation.

I doubt anything related with Poker is using 3-5gb a day. Unless your streaming Pokerstars.tv and watch a whole bunch of poker videos.

Thanks for the helpful posts guys!