How much bandwidth does sc2 use?

Coagulation

United States9633 Posts

August 06 2010 05:30 GMT

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

United States3590 Posts

August 06 2010 05:33 GMT

I think from a previous thread that people mentioned only a few kbs are transferred per game so it's ridiculously small.

FC.Strike

United States621 Posts

August 06 2010 05:41 GMT

1 replay is generally less than 100kb, so I assume that a very small amount of data is being transferred.

stafu

Australia1196 Posts

August 06 2010 05:48 GMT

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

United States9633 Posts

August 06 2010 05:57 GMT

i get 5 gigs a month

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

stafu

Australia1196 Posts

August 06 2010 05:59 GMT

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

Canada974 Posts

August 06 2010 06:00 GMT

Download DU meter to find out...

Coagulation

United States9633 Posts

August 06 2010 06:01 GMT

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

New Zealand188 Posts

August 06 2010 06:24 GMT

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

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.

DJFaqU

466 Posts

August 08 2012 00:12 GMT

#11

2 years ago, dude.

MicroTastiC

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

United States4943 Posts

August 08 2012 00:30 GMT

#13

3 minutes ago, dude.

cristo1122

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

MiDNiGhT2903

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

Poland289 Posts

May 13 2013 16:59 GMT

#16

A 2nd time, a bumped thread today. Why are you doing this guys TT

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