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KATHkATH5 Magic
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Join date: 11 Jul 2008
Posts: 2
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11-21-2008 20:28
Hey im in australia..and here we have a limited amount of downloads per month...12/GB per month..and it seems to be using alot. i noticed half of that being used in 7 days..i havnt been on 24/7 but there might have been some things that used up that much..i just want to know how much sl uses and wat i can do to cut it down?
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Peggy Paperdoll
A Brat
Join date: 15 Apr 2006
Posts: 4,383
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11-21-2008 20:41
Everything you see in SL is downloaded to your viewer. That means if you stand in one spot and spin your camera or avatar around you download everything that comes into "view"...........that does not mean it has to rezz for you. Just everything that is within your set draw distance when your camera pans past it. An avatar walks into your draw distance.........it downloads. Every gesture.....downloaded. Every chat, IM, goup notice......all downloaded. In short, everything that happens within your viewing area is downloaded to your viewer.
There isn't much you can do to help that............lessen your draw distance is the only thing that comes to mind for me.
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Maylin Murakami
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Join date: 24 Sep 2005
Posts: 179
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11-21-2008 21:19
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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Join date: 22 Dec 2003
Posts: 14,229
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11-21-2008 22:29
You could try increasing the Second Life cache to the maximum size, in Preferences, Network.
You could stay in the same place as much as possible.
Turn off the music and video as much as you can stand.
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Tabliopa Underwood
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Join date: 6 Aug 2007
Posts: 719
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11-21-2008 22:56
I live across the sea from you Kath, so is even worse for us here as we got distance lag to make up as well. Its the avatars and what they doing that is the download biggie. Try stay away from busy regions during peaktimes for US and Europe users, unless is really important. When shopping go in your late evening. America in bed then mostly and Europe eating breakfast so you not bump into as many other avatars at that time.
Also do what Suzanne says about radio and video. A radiostream at 128k on all the time uses up lots of bandwidth. Also voice if you using it. Voice can add to your SL when you with your frends but using up all your monthly allowance in a couple of weeks listening/chatting to people who mostly strangers aways in public areas is not the best use of your money. Not if you get bumped down to dialup by your ISP for the last week of each month because you used up all your allowance by doing this.
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Wulfric Chevalier
Give me a Fish!!!!
Join date: 22 Dec 2006
Posts: 947
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11-22-2008 00:29
I usually use SL for 6-8 hours per day, usually with music streaming most of that time, and my experience is that it pretty consistently uses close to 1GB per day with that level of usage.
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KATHkATH5 Magic
Registered User
Join date: 11 Jul 2008
Posts: 2
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11-22-2008 02:14
I recently made an alt too,,lol and i had been playin with 2 of them on at once for the fun of it
,,if i can remeber the first 2 days i had them both on a few hours..then other times here and there,,but that might have contributed to this,lol. i didnt do this alot tho..
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Tabliopa Underwood
Registered User
Join date: 6 Aug 2007
Posts: 719
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11-22-2008 02:25
Twice the fun will do it for you everytime
/me grins
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