Destiny uses a crap ton of Bandwidth (Destiny)

by Beorn , <End of Failed Timeline>, Friday, October 24, 2014, 16:44 (3921 days ago) @ CaneCutter

I'm not sure how good of a test this was, but I had a lot of connection issues this past weekend while my cousin and I were playing on my 6 Mbps down connection and my sister streamed netflix. One of us would disconnect from the game world about twice an hour. If not that, we would frequently get the contacting destiny servers message - especially when visiting the tower. So to me, it definitely seems to be heavy on the bandwidth usage.

Netflix certainly wouldn't help the situation, but I would venture to guess that the more likely culprit here is having two consoles sharing the same Internet connection. Getting service ports forwarded to two consoles inside your network can be a bit of a dark art, depending on your specific equipment and configuration. And if you were on Wi-Fi, that adds a whole other level of difficulty.