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Coagulation
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States9633 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-06 05:31:17
August 06 2010 05:30 GMT
#1
i did a tl search and google and found no results

i have a capped internet and would like to know how much bandwidth is used on a average game before I spend the money on it.
I know it depends on how many players/maps/gametype etc
but can someone give me an estimate of how much upload /download is transferd in an average hour of playing. or just an average length 1v1.

thanks for your help

holy_war
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States3590 Posts
August 06 2010 05:33 GMT
#2
I think from a previous thread that people mentioned only a few kbs are transferred per game so it's ridiculously small.
FC.Strike
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States621 Posts
August 06 2010 05:41 GMT
#3
1 replay is generally less than 100kb, so I assume that a very small amount of data is being transferred.
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stafu
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Australia1196 Posts
August 06 2010 05:48 GMT
#4
How capped is your connection? I would assume SC2 uses less than (for comparison's sake) FPS games such as CS. There's a bit of downloading in terms of maps and so on on Bnet but they are negligible in size.
Coagulation
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States9633 Posts
August 06 2010 05:57 GMT
#5
i get 5 gigs a month

i can play on xbox live and usually hit around 50-60 mb an hour
stafu
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Australia1196 Posts
August 06 2010 05:59 GMT
#6
Next time I play I'll close everything bar SC2 and see how much I use between start up/closing and let you know. I'm pretty sure it's very low-bandwidth though.
FusionCutter
Profile Joined October 2004
Canada974 Posts
August 06 2010 06:00 GMT
#7
Download DU meter to find out...
Coagulation
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States9633 Posts
August 06 2010 06:01 GMT
#8
On August 06 2010 14:59 stafu wrote:
Next time I play I'll close everything bar SC2 and see how much I use between start up/closing and let you know. I'm pretty sure it's very low-bandwidth though.


thx man i would really appreciate some solid data.
opticalza
Profile Joined May 2010
New Zealand188 Posts
August 06 2010 06:24 GMT
#9
I played several games yesterday, mostly 1v1's and a 4v4. The bandwidth came up to 8.25mb down and 5.1MB up overall, for 2 hours worth of play. Like i said, mostly 1v1's.

Hope this helps. SC2 is very low on the bandwidth.

If you'd like to monitor your bandwidth, you can download Net limiter monitor and it will log all your data usage from applications etc, as well as sporting a bunch of other features.
BesideHimself
Profile Joined November 2010
United States30 Posts
August 07 2012 23:54 GMT
#10
This is just what I was looking for,

Thanks so much opticalza for taking some initiative.
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DJFaqU
Profile Joined May 2011
466 Posts
August 08 2012 00:12 GMT
#11
2 years ago, dude.
MicroTastiC
Profile Joined January 2011
375 Posts
August 08 2012 00:26 GMT
#12
On August 08 2012 09:12 DJFaqU wrote:
2 years ago, dude.

ok so dont continue to bump the thread
mierin
Profile Joined August 2010
United States4943 Posts
August 08 2012 00:30 GMT
#13
3 minutes ago, dude.
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cristo1122
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Australia505 Posts
August 08 2012 00:33 GMT
#14
On August 06 2010 14:57 Coagulation wrote:
i get 5 gigs a month

i can play on xbox live and usually hit around 50-60 mb an hour


with that most likely because you have to recieve and send data from all players in the game while starcraft there usually fewer players thus less data is transfered. My own experience with starcraft 2 is about 50-60kbs max is needed
ZvP imbalanced blizzards solution nerf terran
MiDNiGhT2903
Profile Joined April 2013
Singapore4 Posts
May 13 2013 16:43 GMT
#15
Great!!
I've been wanting to know about it.
I was worried it would take too much of my bandwidth.
Well, since !@#)%(@#) blizzard decides to force-download the whole patch, i dont have much data left LOL
Jade
Profile Joined January 2011
Poland289 Posts
May 13 2013 16:59 GMT
#16
A 2nd time, a bumped thread today. Why are you doing this guys TT
@KRN_Jade "Patience is a small price to pay for perfection."
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