Well I’m not going to get into it with a stonewaller, but no, I don’t think we are… And as Elocin said, those are about classic, which uses less bandwidth due to the network expectations from 10-20 years ago.
Again, any form of telemetry you’re gathering is just going to show the aggregate. So if you’re dropping packets or have some bad tinfoil hat firewall settings, resends will be counted in that bandwidth you’re supposedly seeing. Also, traffic to a router != traffic to a game server(your phone being the “router” if you’re playing on a hotspot).
Nothing in the game engine related to communication has drastically changed since Classic. It’s a known fact for everyone (other than a few of you I guess) that WoW never uses more than 200 KBps for anything gameplay-related, and I’ve never seen it personally get over 125KBps (1 MBps) in any situation when monitoring.
If anything, 40-man raids in classic might use more data (in raiding) than whatever we have now, barring epic BGs.
Like I said, I’ll post later with actual data from my gameplay (World, BGs, Raiding).
I know data will be skewed upwards due to potential packet loss, so that only further helps my point…
Finally, I’m majored in Comp. Sci, specialized in Network Security and work as Network Admin/Engineer for a living, so these credentials should help my assessment a bit.
Have some more posts about current WoW, since you’re both deflecting assuming Classic was that much slimmer:
Curiously enough, through my research, I’ve already seen how a few of you treat actual network admins so… I’ll just let this rest:
Schooling/work credentials mean nothing in an online forum since you can say whatever to try to make your point carry more weight. But it is a big assumption that others don’t have as much (or more) experience than you in a specific field.
The tail end of your reply is just trolling, and not useful to OP’s thread.
From that other topic in my previous post, I know at least you and the other MVP can’t read a simple MTR for advanced troubleshooting, so there’s no point in discussing further. Call it trolling if you must.
At least I now realize why Blizzard has a high bandwidth requirement after reading between the lines in blue posts related to the matter: noob-proofing, since they don’t want to deal with people asking about what’s needed for playing versus updating, both the game and the agent/etc.
Finally, to remain on-topic, just finish the Battle.net process and maybe the agent too while in game and the bandwidth should be fine.
And to the rest of you, know that a stable 2 Mbps connection with sub 150ms latency is all you need to play Dragonflight smoothly.
P.S.: I really appreciate you both (MvPs) trying to be helpful, likely for free, but the misinformation here is truly worrisome.
one of the reason for requiring a real broadband connection . You are only guaranteed 60 percent of your advertised rate to your ISP’s network. which means so 6 up an .6 down. Depending on the networks you are going through and the distance you will loose more bandwidth along the way.
On a mythic pull with with a full group, Chatty addons and logging iy
On a mythic pull with with a full group, Chatty addons and logging it uses a lot more then . 8 it also spikes on a pull higher then .8 on a large raid pull
Until Blizz fixes it just turn off Battle.net app when wow starts in settings. Or shut it down with task manager. You arent the only one having this issue.
This issue (For those that play wow classic anyway possibly retail as well) can be found under options > Game settings > BETA tab. It keeps updating anywhere from every 5 minutes to every hour downloading anywhere from 1 MB to several GB. It will always use your maximum possible download speed.
This happens to those who have nothing to do with BETA
You cannot stop it.
You cannot throttle it
Reinstalling your launcher does not help
It’s an endless download loop
Blizzard is aware of it and has done nothing thus far that I can see to fix this issue.
The only way to stop the issue as of now is set your launcher to close when launching a game. If for whatever reason blizzard disables the option to do so, they’ll effectively destroy a huge portion of their playerbase and their ability to even play
There is a solution and I’ve already outlined it in other threads where people have issues with updates taking forever, but it also covers issues with the bnet app as well:
Broken folder permissions can cause this and if you didn’t directly hit no to any of the admin permission elevation popups, then it’s likely your security software or some overly strict settings.