Does this use internet data?

[terry]

I have quite a small data cap, and I was wondering, if I use an animated wallpaper will it use my internet to do so? I don't think it will but if anybody knows please say! Thankyou :)

[QQ]

if you got it you shoudl know. It will if and when you DL wallpapers. If you got a data cap you will blow alot just by testing wallpapers seeing what ones you like. i prob dl 100+ and i only liked 13 out of the 100+ and some were 500mb each... as for running the ones you keep, i dont think it uses internet data but look at your data useage and just test it. better safe then sorry.

[segerkungen]

Hammy, have u found it out yet? does it drain internet?

[Tim]

The application does not randomly connect to the internet or anything like that, however,if you subscribe to wallpapers, Steam will obviously download them which will use your data. In theory someone could create a web or application wallpaper which could access the internet, but this is not something that you will find a lot or should realistically be worried about, especially if you stick to scene or video wallpapers.

If you never subscribe to wallpapers and only use your own creations, Steam will basiscally not download anything except the application updates. Since Wallpaper Engine does not need Steam to function, you could also never run Steam if you want to make sure that no updates are installed.

[ColdBoltz]

if u install it then u wont be charge any data

[Arthesian]

There should be a small note here though :

Although only subscribing ( downloading ) should use an internet connection to download the actual files, using Wallpaper Engine itself shouldn't.

However! Web based wallpapers and Application Type wallpapers CAN in fact make web-calls to load external data ( like scripts, images etc. )

Not a lot of wallpapers do it, but it's certainly possible...

Also, if you are on a data cap, don't download Video type wallpapers. Because they tend to be very big ( especially compared to Web- and Scene-type wallpapers )

Cheers