Newcomer / Intro Playing Elite with Doungle.

witkowskipl

witkowskipl
Hello,

I am a student abroad and unfortunately I have no Internet connection at my accommodation. My tenants do not want to buy it, neither do I (usually it is a yearly contract). I've got a dongle which is kinda Internet on USB with microSIM. However it eats all gigabytes rapidly by watching Youtube, FB etc.

My question is... Does Elite:Dangerous eat lot of transfer? Even when playing solo mode?

Has anyone tried playing Elite with dongle? Is it worth spending ten pounds on a top up to play the game?

Cheers!
 
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krysohmyz

K
if you stay in Solo mode it only needs a 10kb packet once in a while.

Open mode can be more hungry and usually averages around 200kb/s
 

Andovar

Andovar
I can't find it now, but I remember one of the devs saying that the bandwidth requirements for solo mode would be low.
Whether or not your connection is up to the task, I have no idea.
 

witkowskipl

witkowskipl
Thank you krysohmyz!

If it is true then it is worth to give it a go.
I really have to put my brain on a desk, forget about classes from rotodynamics and explore the Universe :D
 

krysohmyz

K
Yes! You do that. :)

I'd say "See you around the galaxy", but that's only if you decide to fetch a proper connection and go Open.
So... Have fun! :D
 

krysohmyz

K
Does this really work, Cabal? It seems almost too awesome to be true. And with my limited (read girly) technical knowledge I can't fathom how it could overcome inherent capabilities of the line Me -> my provider -> magic thingy in the middle -> game server
 

witkowskipl

witkowskipl
I'll check this today. Anyway do you know a good way to quickly suppress internet connection between other programs? To be sure they will not steal the transfer during the play.
 

Midian Cabal

Midian Cabal
krysohmyz said:
Does this really work, Cabal? It seems almost too awesome to be true. And with my limited (read girly) technical knowledge I can't fathom how it could overcome inherent capabilities of the line Me -> my provider -> magic thingy in the middle -> game server
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It really works. When I played WoW it dropped a friend's ping from 200 ms to bearable 70 ms. YMMV.

This change affects only Windows machines, because Windows is a lazy operating system that waits for packages and then sends the whole group at once. With this change each individual package is sent ASAP over the line, thus lowering latency.
 

witkowskipl

witkowskipl
Ok, I tried with a dongle on Solo mode.

First try (20 minutes) = 0,58 MB eaten
Second go (another 20 minutes) = 0,98 MB eaten
Yeeeey! :) It's great! Until I face next updates. :p
 
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