How much data is used during multiplayer sessions ?

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I have a question to anyone who might be able to answer it.

I have a 7 gigabyte a month tethering limit for my mobile data plan which I use for all of my internet and after watching the team playing EU 4 online I think I'd like to give it a go .

But I'm curious as to how much data is used per hour to play this game in a multiplayer match?
 
If CS:GO and SW:TOR are anything to go by - very little actual data is used. AFAIR long sessions (>8hrs) in SW:TOR were using under a 100MB. You might have a problem with latency though, mobile internet isn't very good for this sort of thing. Even though I live in the centre of big city and have great LTE signal playing online using my mobile ISP is pretty much pointless.
 
If CS:GO and SW:TOR are anything to go by - very little actual data is used. AFAIR long sessions (>8hrs) in SW:TOR were using under a 100MB. You might have a problem with latency though, mobile internet isn't very good for this sort of thing. Even though I live in the centre of big city and have great LTE signal playing online using my mobile ISP is pretty much pointless.

thanks good to know , thank you for the response ! i might still give it a try and see how my luck holds .
 
I live in the centre of big city and have great LTE signal playing online using my mobile ISP is pretty much pointless.

You can have a great signal and slow speeds, especially if the signal towers are congested. For example, I get 2 mega BITS per second (so 0.25MB/s) with 4G/LTE. With 3g, I get a full MB/s. My city is a poorer city, and am with a phone provider that doesn't have as many towers as other bigger service providers - leading to more data congestion.


So to OP, if you have at least a few MB/s download speed you should be completely fine - many people have routers that only give them that much and they can still play. One thing to note is that you may need to play on speed 2 or 3 only if your download speed is not too good.
 
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