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umiman

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How fast before 3G networks detect you went over the limit?
« on: October 08, 2012, 09:33:12 pm »

Hey there. I want to preload X-COM before it comes out tomorrow but until tomorrow I'm using a crappy 3G mobile internet that has a fair use policy of 10gb even though it's unlimited. Since I'm not going to be using it come tomorrow, I was wondering if it was possible for me to rush download X-COM before abandoning it. Of course, if the network instantly detects and throttles the connection, it's gonna be pretty pointless for me since I'd end up wasting all the extra bandwidth for an incomplete download (it's 12GB for X-COM), and have to redownload the whole thing when it comes out tomorrow on my actual wifi connection.

So, does anyone know if you get detected instantly? Anyone with any experience with this?

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Re: How fast before 3G networks detect you went over the limit?
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2012, 09:47:30 pm »

uh if you download from steam you can pause the download for later you know

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Re: How fast before 3G networks detect you went over the limit?
« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2012, 09:50:06 pm »

uh if you download from steam you can pause the download for later you know
I don't think a preload of a game can be paused and continued with the full release download.

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Re: How fast before 3G networks detect you went over the limit?
« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2012, 09:55:00 pm »

uh if you download from steam you can pause the download for later you know
I don't think a preload of a game can be paused and continued with the full release download.
its the same game unless they patch it on release.

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Re: How fast before 3G networks detect you went over the limit?
« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2012, 03:56:36 am »

Normally internet fair use policies are actually divided by the day, so you'd probably get to a few hundred MB before being throttled.
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Re: How fast before 3G networks detect you went over the limit?
« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2012, 03:07:42 pm »

It was instant. :P

They even shut down all connections to Steam too after I went over. So I could do everything (albeit super slowly) but Steam didn't function at all.