How much Wi-Fi bandwidth does one use in an hour when playing multi-player games?

[craftEcowgirl]

How much wifi bandwidth does one use when playing a game between a multi-player game, if using back and forth for say an hours time?

Example Spite & Malice, which i play with my mother who is 600 miles away.

My brother says she uses up too much bandwidth monthly and slows and stops the wifi from working.

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iPhone 6 Plus

 

[kch50428]

Re: Bandwidth?

My brother says she uses up too much bandwidth monthly and slows and stops the wifi from working.

Only if Mom's home internet is metered and blows a data cap... and it throttles.

 

[craftEcowgirl]

Re: Bandwidth?

He says it did, but am tryng to figure out how much bandwidth is used for an hours worth of play?


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iPhone 6 Plus

 

[SwitchBeach]

Re: Bandwidth?

Only the app developer can tell you how much data is used for an hour's worth of play. Note that it's probably not a "bandwidth" issue.

 

[craftEcowgirl]

Re: Bandwidth?

What issue then? I figured we are using less then 8GB a month going by an estimate i found online for 18GB an hour for online game


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iPhone 6 Plus

 

[SwitchBeach]

Re: Bandwidth?

It's a data usage issue not a bandwidth issue.

 

[Ledsteplin]

18 gb per hour? Nah! Maybe 18 mb. We get about 300 gb of wifi data a month from Comcast. We average about 16 gb per month. My Wife and I. I use about 15.9 gb and she uses the rest.


Sent from my ancient but trustworthy iPhone 5.

 

[craftEcowgirl]

Sorry i meant it to be 18mb


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iPhone 6 Plus

 

[mikeo007]

18-20 MB per hour would be a good rough estimate for an MMO.
For a game that's just 2 players though, I'd think it would be considerably less.
I don't know what Spite and Malice is, but google tells me it's some sort of card game?
If so, I'd think the bandwidth usage is probably more like 5-10mb per hour max.

I mean, a single move in a turn based card game might only take 0.005 MB of data to transfer.
That would mean 200 combined moves would take up 1MB, so I guess it depends on how fast you play the game.