Graph (Destiny)

by Beorn , <End of Failed Timeline>, Wednesday, October 22, 2014, 18:28 (3923 days ago) @ Schedonnardus

I played for 5 hours, and the data usage per hour varied from 75 MB (me by myself patrolling) to 340 MB (Atheon with party chat active). The other three hours were in the ~150 MB/hr range.

Very interesting. Here's a little more data for cross-reference. I tracked my router's bandwidth today while playing some Control in the Crucible:

Router SNMP data; gray is upstream, blue is downstream. Spikes are likely my computer checking email and such. The dropoff on the right is the end of the match and returning to orbit.

This was a 12-player game without voice chat, utilizing ~56 KB/s (3.28 MB/min) up and down (that's 128 KB/s or 6.56 MB/min for data cap counters!). From this, I think it's fair to assume that an hour of 6v6 Crucible would burn through 180–200 MB, and voice chat would obviously add more.

Curious to see what it does next time we're in the Vault…