How much network data does Minecraft normally use?
How much Internet data does Minecraft use to play "online"? (By "online", I mean not "Play Offline".) Is there a difference in usage between Single- and Multi-player? Is there anything that might affect this, such as launchers or custom skins?
Some Internet connections only allow X MB/GB per month, and I was wondering how much of that can/does get used by Minecraft, and what can affect it.
Best Answer
My friend and I did a little trial on my server to see how much data it uses. Now, we were also on Skype so this number is going to be higher than it would be with just Minecraft alone. My friend was on my server for exactly an hour and he used exactly 3 GB of data.
So, converting 3 GB first to MB and then kB:
3 GB/h × 1024 MB/h = 3072 MB/h, then 3072 MB/h × 1024 kB/h = 3,145,728 kB/h.
Now, dividing that first into minutes and then seconds you get:
3,145,728 kB/h ÷ 60 m = 52,428 kB/m, then 52,428 kB/m ÷ 60 s = 873.81 kB/s.
So in the end, we got a total of 873.81 kB/s using both Skype and Minecraft at the same time.
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Answer 2
Depending on what sever your playing on, minecraft creators have done a lot to chop down on types of things that will use up network usage. For me, my internet allows up to 10GB of data usage. I played on some severs and checked on my data usage, and after about 3 hours of playing minecarft online, I used about 50MB of data usage. So minecraft online doesn't really use a lot of data. But where as skins go, it depending on how big the file for the downloaded skin is. Lets say the skin is 5KB, it will add 2.5KB to your data usage. Hope this helps clarify things!
Answer 3
aprox 1240 kb with the connection and maintaining it
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