How much data usage when playing online?

[Aphexan]

Hey!

I searched for this question first but didnt find it, I apologize if it has been answered and would appreciate a link to the thread in question.

I'm on a X gb/month-deal for my internet. I ran out today and bought 5 more gb for an outlandish sum. How much data would I spend by playing payday2? My old router had a datalogger so I could have checked it easily then, but of course my new one doesn't. :/

To be specific I use TeamSpeak on my phone via 4g and have voicechat turned off in the game, so I'm just wondering about how much data the game itself goes through.

Thanks in advance. :)

[josh]

You're best course of action would be to download a bandwidth moniter. That will let you know specifically how much you are using. I think I used BWMoniter in the past. It was pretty simple from what I remember. I'm sure there's plenty of free ones out there.

[c4ndlejack]

if you have limited data, payday 2 is not the game for you.

[Hydrogen]

I'm on limited data (250 GB/month) and never have gone over, even with the crazy number of game updates and all.

As an initial approximation, I can tell you that it's around about 0.5 mbps of bandwidth used (1 mbps = 128 KB/s). I run a TF2 MvM server which holds 5 other players and that uses 0.7 mbps on average. Payday 2 uses like 0.4-0.6 mbps from my observations. Using those numbers, determine whatever statistic you are looking for.

Also, I do not think muting voicechat inhibits data transfer. I believe the data is still transferred to your computer but then the game just prevents voice chat from being sent to your speakers. (But I have no clue how it works internally.) Obviously, you speaking into your mic will use up data, but others speaking in their mic will probably still cost you bandwidth.

I may be speaking out of my rear end here, but is having unlimited data on your cell phone with tethering an option? You may want to consider that as your secondary internet source.

[Friendly]

I can't speak for this game specifically but I don't believe online gaming in general uses alot of bandwidth, even if you do it for many hours on end each day.

[Scuba Steve]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Beast:

I can't speak for this game specifically but I don't believe online gaming in general uses alot of bandwidth, even if you do it for many hours on end each day.

That's what I'm lead to believe as well. I've used a hotspot for gaming before when my home internet isn't working, and I've not seen a huge increase from simply playing. Now updates, DLC and other downloads...

[RhiaRhiRhi]

http://puu.sh/csjDQ/92bb26f25a.png

These are my records from the past few days with around 3 or 4 hours of play each night. I predominately host games in Payday 2 with my friends, using TeamSpeak for VOIP. Payday 2's VOIP chat hasn't been disabled, so this shows that the usage really isn't all that much.