Guild Wars 2

I’m fixing to get off my land-line 1.5mb internet to get satellite internet. Only problem is of the several dif providers, they all have a data allowance. I need to know how much data usage is GW2 using. My wife plays average of 12-16 hours a day and I play average of 8-10 hours a day. So how many gigs of data does that equate to. 20gigs a month, 50gigs a month, 150 gigs a month(hope not). Please any info would be very appreciated so I can figure what package to buy! Thanks in advance!
Syn

I think these two links pretty much tell the story:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_Internet_access (about a third of the way down)

http://www.ehow.com/facts_5777101_normal-satellite-internet-latency_.html

In a nutshell, satellite internet is probably a bad idea for gaming.

Just playing the game doesn’t use so much bandwidth. What really use it is when patches rolls out. It can be in the hundreds of megabytes.

If you want to measure how much usage in a normal month including all your web browsing etc… look at your router for bandwidth logs or install bandwidth meter like NetWorx on the desktkop.

GW2 alone won’t use anywhere near 20GB a month.

Syn Strykiir.9356:

I’m fixing to get off my land-line 1.5mb internet to get satellite internet. Only problem is of the several dif providers, they all have a data allowance. I need to know how much data usage is GW2 using. My wife plays average of 12-16 hours a day and I play average of 8-10 hours a day. So how many gigs of data does that equate to. 20gigs a month, 50gigs a month, 150 gigs a month(hope not). Please any info would be very appreciated so I can figure what package to buy! Thanks in advance!
Syn

You may want to reconsider that plan, or at the least carefully research it before you leap. Satellite internet can be pretty quick, but I would be concerned about potential latency problems. Maybe things have improved in the last few years since I used the Hughes satellite system (I switched to a land-based wireless ISP in 2005), but latencies in the range of 1200-to-1500 msec were not uncommon for Hughes back then.

I’m curious … is anybody here using satellite internet, and if so, what kind of pings do you get?

Thank you Kirito. Thats good to know that it don’t take much bandwidth to play GW2, but now after what Cactus just told me and after doing a bit of searching, the sat option may be worse for me. Guess I’ll stick with land-line 1.5mbps. Slow… yes, but I rarely ever have high pings so that’s good! Ty guys for the infos!