SL using more bandwidth than 2 weeks ago?

I've noticed this past week that SL seems to be using more bandwidth. I don't know if it's because there are more residents in world or the update, but I was able to log in with hardly any problems (other than crashes related to my graphics card overheating), but this past week the bandwidth usage seems to be extremely high. I don't know how to measure that so I can be sure though, is there a utility somewhere that I can run to test this? Anyone else having this issue? Am I imagining it? Is the update more demanding on my system?

Yes i have noticed this aswell :/
Being on download/upload limit of 20gig..that really sucks...

It all started after that update where they did something to the packages or so....

just wait till they up the download speed, even faster and more eating bandwidth if you set it to use it anyway


Just about every update you need to cache everything again,didnt they say this was fixed?, cough and the , ***x*** wierd cache that doesnt do anything is useless -.- 1gig in SL nowadays whats that half a sim, or 20 avatars?.

I have been getting some really wild FPS reading....30 to higher in places i use to get 15fps
...at times i reaching 50 and above. Grant you I am on a 100m Fiber internet connection. But even in the worse places I am blazing thur them. No lag at all.

over 2mbit doesnt do much for SL, except if youre watching ingame videos, their download isnt set very high -.o

Use a 155mbit here, and usually on a 10mbit, fps vary > avatars kill it.

Lod is very aggressive now, even highest object, avatar detail looks like crap unless you change the debug setting, make a sphere another sphere , zoom out it will go wierdshape at distance

Object Mesh detail bleh, occulation hits in ...never for me same fps pretty much everywhere in the boxes i tried, go look at 30+ avatars, check fps

All my setting are high.....viewer is clear with little issues. No crashing No Pocket loss and more Teleporting is easy etc.....If the BW setting is indeed nolonger based on the clients slidder ( for the of bette words ). I heard this a few times on the forum.........It might be the first step in ability to raise the limit of tapping into the crazy inernet conections like me who have hyper high BW..........