Blogger Greg Pfister has been monitoring the data streamed to his PC when using OnLive and has found some surprising results.
When viewing ‘non action’ video OnLive was using around 3% of a 100MB/sec connection, however when playing Borderlands or watching trailers of games such as Deus Ex he found that the usage went up to 6.4% of 100MB/sec, the equivalent of over 2.9GB of data an hour.
Greg notes that his ISP considers over 250GB a month ‘excessive’ and ground for terminating the account. If you are using OnLive it’s probably worth reading the small print on your Broadband agreement to make sure you have enough bandwidth.
Source: Perils Of Parallel Blog
TheDeathAvenger
Oh, me! Not played a good game of scrabble in ages.
Actually not played any board game in ages, my suggestions of Monopoly were always shot down. I think they got sick of all the bonuses I awarded myself ;)
ljc1976
Last night I ran a test of the OnLive process over a 10 minute period whilst playing Dirt3. Total downloaded = 470MB. That equates to 2.82GB per hour.
I’ve uploaded the test to YouTube if anyone’s interested:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4kNOJyVPLg
(I wish I had researched screen recording apps more thoroughly as the framerate doesn’t do OnLive justice)
ljc1976
Also, I’d like to apologise to Greg for being critical as my findings pretty much match his.
That is a lot of data.