Risk of data usage with League?
Alright, so I moved into a new house, and we won't have Internet for a while. I wanna know two things:
Is a hotspot from an IPhone 5s strong enough to maintain a signal in a League of Legends game? (I get 10.39 Mbps down, and 18.46 Mbps upload speed)
how much data would that use? (Not an unlimited data plan, that's why I'm asking)
This is hypothetical, not sure if I'm gonna try it anyway, I just want to know.
(BTW: I tagged league of legends on this because someone in that area might know something about the network requirements and usage that comes from playing league, so please don't think this is not a league question just because it isn't about gameplay specifically)
Best Answer
From what I can find;
"LoL uses roughly 20 kb/s (that's kiloBITs per second) when in game. It uses minuscule amounts while not in game running the client." - source
As for your second question, I don't know how stable your phone's hotspot will be, but I do know people who have played League of Legends off their phone hotspots, and they didn't have too much stability trouble.
Also as Aequitas mentioned, you can get a tracking info of data usage from an app, or at least on an iPhone 6, it tells you under the general usage part of the settings.
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No matter how fast is your internet if its stable and you have low ping (use ping command to check your ping).
When I tried using my iPhone as hotspot in one city I got really high speed (LTE) download and upload but ping to google servers or DNS was ~450ms which is bad. In another city (perhaps I was closer to cell tower) had stable ping 50ms.
Another tip is to use cable (USB) over wifi hotspot. Also avoid watching youtube or any other streaming service at the time you play.
Windows: ping www.google.com -t (-t switch is so ping won't stop after certain amount of pings) type it in command line (windows logo button + r)
OSX: ping www.google.com -t switch not needed; type it in terminal (use spotlight to search for it)
If you get lots of timeouts that is bad for playing any real time game over internet.
time=xx.xx ms is important in picture below the lower the number the better ping.
(I am not listing LoL servers because IP might change, google is universal).
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