How much bandwidth does ED use?

[Stabby_Dave]

I’ve just moved house (literally across the road) and my wonderful ISP - TalkTalk - have told me it’ll take between three weeks and two months to move my connection.

In the meantime, I’m looking at a broadband dongle, but as data is pretty dear on these things, I’m wondering whether ED will take up too much.

Anyone got any ideas?

Cheers.

 

[Muzz UK]

Not sure about bandwidth use but I played alright on 4g.

Did have a few instancing issues occasionally with friends but was playable. As for actual numbers up and down I don't remember but could be a big beta/patch out in the next month.

 

[RamirezKurita]

Relatively little unless you are playing in instances with other players. Normally the only communication is keeping the servers updated with various statistics and to receive information such as missions rather than bulk game data.

 

[Deleted member 110222]

Relatively little unless you are playing in instances with other players. Normally the only communication is keeping the servers updated with various statistics and to receive information such as missions rather than bulk game data.

So basically, stick to Solo for now? That wouldn't be a disaster.

 

[Franc Kaos]

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I’m looking at a broadband dongle, but as data is pretty dear on these things
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If you've got data allowance on your phone just use it as a hotspot. If you play in solo mode shouldn't take up too much data.
https://www.computerworld.com/artic...-to-use-a-smartphone-as-a-mobile-hotspot.html

 

[anikaiful]

I’ve just moved house (literally across the road) and my wonderful ISP - TalkTalk - have told me it’ll take between three weeks and two months to move my connection.

In the meantime, I’m looking at a broadband dongle, but as data is pretty dear on these things, I’m wondering whether ED will take up too much.

Anyone got any ideas?

Cheers.

Bandwidth? Not much anything at all, I've seen 34KB/s at VERY congested space (60+ players), and that's something even stone age ISP can provide. You could happily play even with 3G phone providing the web, if such even exist anymore as anything I see is 4G or better.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

In solo, very very little. I used to tether my laptop to my phone over my 4G and play ED (in solo) for several hours a week (while at work. Lol), and never went over my 2.5GB limit. Most of the time, not even close to it.

Just find some free WiFi to do updates.

My ISP did the same thing, and said 3 weeks to set up a new connection to my "new house" that is in the middle of my street, and is 160 years old.

Unfortunately my phone signal in my house is garbage, so I was basically internetless for that time.

Only just got fibre this summer. And it's unreliable. Yay!

I love the internet.

 

[Cmdr Eagleboy]

At the moment it is very modest, during first year, alpha and beta it was nightmarishly huge.

Solo can play with G4 dongle without any issues. G4 will also work with good coverage and latency with considerable amount of players.

With very low latency (optics) game is smooth as silk even with lot of other players around.

There's huge importance to have good latency more than high upload. If latency is good, real time traffic is good, and game doesn't need to resend coordinates and thus little traffic is used.

 

[anikaiful]

There's huge importance to have good latency more than high upload. If latency is good, real time traffic is good, and game doesn't need to resend coordinates and thus little traffic is used.

^-- this, is a very important factor when playing with anyone very far away, regardless of game.

 

[JetsonRING]

Bandwidth usage varies widely moment to moment in Elite Dangerous depending on your activity and which play mode you are in. You can view your ED bandwidth usage live on Windows PCs by pressing Ctrl-B in the game.

 

[UmbraRex]

Playing on my phone connection, as long as I have more than 1 bar, is doable.

With more than one other player in the instance however performance drops to unplayable levels.

 

[Auronio]

I had issues last year when using a GigaBit powerline.

Then FDev support told me that bandwidth requirements are very little but stability is key.
I changed to a LAN cable and since then it's almost perfect.

Bottom line - as long as your connection is stable bandwidth is secondary.

 

[Deep Thought 42]

Depends on number of other CMDRS are in the same instance

i play for hours on end & only use a small amount 100-300mb aprox a day on ed
use more on youtube/ pressing F5 on patchday lol

If you have windows 10 look at data usage in settings under network & internet that will show you useage over the last 30days

 

[Gun Star]

A lot of people blast Comcast in the states for stuff, but I will say. They have fast internet and if I move they are there the day I move in or the next day to get me reconnected.

3 weeks to 2 months. I think its time to try finding another provider.

 

[smiths121]

Thanks to VM costing the earth and offering a lousy product, I spent an afternoon tethered to a 3G (does not do 4G) phone. I was surprised that I could wing up, do voice coms and play the game. Instance changing took a bit longer, but only cos I was looking.

Did not actually look at the bandwidth though.

Simon

 

[Hacker#451563]

I don't if you know this but if you press Ctrl and B at the same time (I do it in the lobby screen) you will get a bandwidth counter appear in the bottom left of your screen.

You can monitor which activities use the most bandwidth and avoid them, even in Solo mode. The mission board is a HUGE bandwidth hog currently, I'm hoping the new server will improve that a little.

 

[LuxAeterna]

between three weeks and two months to move my connection.

Jeezus! That's a ridiculous amount of time to wait for interwebs hookup! Around where I live it'll take maybe a week, at most, especially when an ISP is slammed with new accounts.
Is that the only ISP in your area? Maybe you need to switch ISPs...

 

[Strangepork]

I’ve just moved house (literally across the road) and my wonderful ISP - TalkTalk - have told me it’ll take between three weeks and two months to move my connection.

In the meantime, I’m looking at a broadband dongle, but as data is pretty dear on these things, I’m wondering whether ED will take up too much.

Anyone got any ideas?

Cheers.

I'm not sure but I do know solo is about 10x less than open.

 

[IndigoWyrd]

I'll have to look at the details on my Iridium invoice.. been playing from my boat this week, when I'm not piloting her. Probably a good 4 hours worth so far while either at anchor or parked in the marinas without WiFi. Why some of these marinas don't have WiFi I just cannot comprehend...

 

[LuxAeterna]

A lot of people blast Comcast in the states for stuff, but I will say. They have fast internet and if I move they are there the day I move in or the next day to get me reconnected.

3 weeks to 2 months. I think its time to try finding another provider.

I have rarely had problems with Comcast but they do hook you up fairly quickly.