I just switched internet providers last month and I'm on a smaller bandwidth usage cap. This month I got my bill and it shows I've gone 30 GB over the usage cap and wound up with heavy fees.
I've installed NetMeter and have it open on my desktop watching what's eating the bandwidth. TF2, other Steam games, Skype, and regular internet usage are hardly even showing a blip.
I play on a SMP server 1-3 hours a day, several nights a week.
Sure enough, once I log into Minecraft and join a server, it starts gobbling up 35-50 KB/s with me just standing inside my house, doing nothing and going nowhere.
I don't recall this being a problem before about 1.3.1.
I'm not hosting the server, it's remotely hosted elsewhere. Using vanilla client, joining Bukkit server with few plugins.
The bandwidth is much higher when I'm around my farms with lots of livestock. But even out in the open during daylight it's still chewing through 20 kb/s download.
I'm done with Minecraft if this is what I can expect just having a simple farm. I'm not paying $65-100 a month extra overage fees for the privilege of playing with my mates.
Any suggestions or help or even an explanation would be appreciated.
I've installed NetMeter and have it open on my desktop watching what's eating the bandwidth. TF2, other Steam games, Skype, and regular internet usage are hardly even showing a blip.
I play on a SMP server 1-3 hours a day, several nights a week.
Sure enough, once I log into Minecraft and join a server, it starts gobbling up 35-50 KB/s with me just standing inside my house, doing nothing and going nowhere.
I don't recall this being a problem before about 1.3.1.
I'm not hosting the server, it's remotely hosted elsewhere. Using vanilla client, joining Bukkit server with few plugins.
The bandwidth is much higher when I'm around my farms with lots of livestock. But even out in the open during daylight it's still chewing through 20 kb/s download.
I'm done with Minecraft if this is what I can expect just having a simple farm. I'm not paying $65-100 a month extra overage fees for the privilege of playing with my mates.
Any suggestions or help or even an explanation would be appreciated.