Bandwidth Usage.

Brother Jobe

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Hello, I just purchased the beta, expecting it to use approximately the same amount of bandwidth that any other online game uses. But, in a 30 minute play session I used about 70 times more bandwidth than I would for any other online game I have played.

I have a pretty low bandwidth cap (as do many countries outside of America) and won't be able to play ED if it gobbles up MBs like a hungry elephant. 200mbs in 30 minutes of online play is pretty insane. That should absolutely be listed in the minimum requirements, as it is very abnormal for a game.

Has there been any mention by the devs about bandwidth usage? I couldn't find anything on it :(
 

Cmdr Andy B

Cmdr Andy B
i'm sure that will reduce dramatically on release, right now the game is probably sending as much diagnostic info as game info, that wont be needed in later builds.
 

Commander Dave

Commander Dave
In my understanding a lot of that data is diagnostic in nature.
Come future builds and release I'm sure there'll be a lot less data transferring around. Although it is using P2P so I'd expect it to use a fair bit anyway.
 

trekman

trekman
Since its still a work in progress and not a fully complete game I would imagine that the bandwith you are currently experiencing will reduce when the game is completed fully.
 

Cmdr Eagleboy

Cmdr Eagleboy
While amount of traffic will be minimized on release, this is peer to peer game, and cap clearly will limit your playing time, sorry to say that.
 

Brother Jobe

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Thanks for the replies everyone. I just hope it has to do with debug info being sent back to the devs, like many of you have said :smilie:
 

Bruce Turnbull

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Has there been any information from FD about bandwidth use? I can't find anything.

TBH my use doesn't seem too high but I have only started looking after this thread. there doesn't seem to be a constant upload or download.

Any thoughts?
 
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