Download/upload ratio

[sapzap]

Hello and sorry in advance for my english, as im not oriented from an english speaking country.

I have a problem.You see i own a Laptop and i got an ISP that offers me Wireless 3g internet acces.
I Have a limit on it for 10gb upload/download per month. I've start playing h&h about 10 days ago, and today that i checked my Limit it was on 24gb.
Means 14gb over the limit.Is it possible that it was the games fault ? (I was playing about 5-6 hours per day, dl'ed only like 1giga-2 episodes of a tv series at the time).

Im just wondering, cause now i got Pay per Mb and the f*ng bill is going to be kinda huge :/

Ty in advance and sorry again for my english :/

[sabinati]

did you use a torrent to download the tv episodes?

[Salanmander]

It is very unlikely that the game caused that. I would recommend getting a program that tracks network traffic on your computer to find the source of that traffic. It's possible that if you downloaded those tv episodes with bittorrent or something like it, that most of the traffic was uploads from your computer to other torrenters.

[Gedrean]

Awww, and I was gonna post a long complicated mathematical explanation, but it's already been said.

So I'll make the math simple. Assume H&H transfers 10 KB/sec at all times (it most certainly does not, as I can tell from my network monitor, so this is a dramatic over-estimate).

5-6 hrs = 3600*6 = 21600 seconds, * 10KB = 216,000 KB = 216 MB per day, * 10 days = 2.16 GB.

No, H&H did not cause this.

Your download/torrent of a TV series probably did, because when you use torrents, you're not only downloading, you're uploading, and if you leave the torrent client on the whole time (as most are set to run in the background) then you've been uploading that whole time. Probably where your 22 GB or so went to.

[sapzap]

Awww, and I was gonna post a long complicated mathematical explanation, but it's already been said.

So I'll make the math simple. Assume H&H transfers 10 KB/sec at all times (it most certainly does not, as I can tell from my network monitor, so this is a dramatic over-estimate).

5-6 hrs = 3600*6 = 21600 seconds, * 10KB = 216,000 KB = 216 MB per day, * 10 days = 2.16 GB.

No, H&H did not cause this.

Your download/torrent of a TV series probably did, because when you use torrents, you're not only downloading, you're uploading, and if you leave the torrent client on the whole time (as most are set to run in the background) then you've been uploading that whole time. Probably where your 22 GB or so went to.

Thank you a lot for your answer, if there is any free traffic monitor program that you can recommend me ill be really glad mate.
Ty all aswell.

[Gedrean]

Awww, and I was gonna post a long complicated mathematical explanation, but it's already been said.

So I'll make the math simple. Assume H&H transfers 10 KB/sec at all times (it most certainly does not, as I can tell from my network monitor, so this is a dramatic over-estimate).

5-6 hrs = 3600*6 = 21600 seconds, * 10KB = 216,000 KB = 216 MB per day, * 10 days = 2.16 GB.

No, H&H did not cause this.

Your download/torrent of a TV series probably did, because when you use torrents, you're not only downloading, you're uploading, and if you leave the torrent client on the whole time (as most are set to run in the background) then you've been uploading that whole time. Probably where your 22 GB or so went to.

Thank you a lot for your answer, if there is any free traffic monitor program that you can recommend me ill be really glad mate.
Ty all aswell.

I would suggest:
http://www.bwmonitor.com/
http://www.netlimiter.com/ (if they ever get their free "monitor" version 3 up)
http://miechu.pl/freemeter/

Though others are around, try and see which ones you like.