Hi, I'm not new to Spiral Knights, but only recently have I been having trouble with Spiral Knights eating up my internet allowance. Yes I know that it uses a decent amount of data, but not at the rate it is now. I have one gig of data to use a day, but I usually only use maybe 20 or 30% of it with four or five hours of arcade and some haven time. But recently just in the ready room forging I dropped 9% in three minutes. I just wasn't sure what the deal was, if Spiral Knights is using more data as of the new update or what. Also apologies if this isn't where this topic should go. Oh and I am on a laptop (same one as when I started) and it meets the minimum standards pretty much. My internet does have a data cap, but a few minutes of gaming should not have this much of an impact. Any ideas what may be causing this? I was the only one with a devise online, so...if anyone has suggestions, thank you much!
Spiral Knights Internet Data Usage
I don't know why this stuff should require 900 MiB, though.
90 MiB, he said his daily usage is 1000 MiB so 9% of that would be 90.
That sounds really odd though, I don't think it needs that much. Are you sure you didn't have stuff updating or whatever in the background?
I knew the Ready Room was a CPU glutton, I didn't realise it might be a network glutton too. I thought that's what it was designed to be efficient in.
Thank you all so much for replying! I don't know why the increase was so much, but I think Bopp might be close to what's happening. I had task manager open, looking at how much network was being used, (spiral knights was at the top for most data) and I got like .2 and .3 mbps I believe. So I may just be having terrible spikes of activity...And I may have been updating something in the background, but usually I get a prompt from whatever is downloading.
I started to play for about ten minutes and the data usage started to level out in the arcade, strange as that sounds. I find that in the havens with more people use more data as expected, but in the ready room I usually doesn't, but at least its not exceeding the data limit.
Thank you Bopp and Hexzyle!
Perhaps it's because you are loading all of the different accessories/costumes in Haven then? In the clockworks you just need to use the monster models, which are never all that much anyways.
You might consider avoiding havens and perhaps involved guildhalls if loading all those things to your client is what uses up so much.
No amount of player data experienced in a 5 minute period would amount to anything near 90MiB. The most I would assume any player data would be is in the 200-300KiB range, but that would be including their entire inventory and recipe list, not just the equipped form which you see of players in haven, which is probably no more than 50KiB.
There is no possible ingame source that would cause 90MiB of data be downloaded in such a short period, the data usage I am 99% sure came from either Spiral Knights downloading an update, or other updates/internet usage occurring with other programs.
I see why you think that but I am almost positive no one else was online, and nothing was downloading. Sometimes my internet gets these weird data spikes when I play games, but it happened like five times in a row. It has since settled down, so I thank you guys so much for the info and such. Satellite internet is not fun :P. I mean like you said, there is a possibility that something was downloading, but it's so odd that in three minutes, literally, it dropped that much. I'm not tech savvy, so I very well could have accidental clicked to download something...any who, Hexzyle, I have this data tracker feature on my Windows 8 laptop that I will be using in the future to see what is happening. Thanks again everyone.
I don't know, but consider this: In the first few minutes, the game may be loading your arsenal, your guild, your online friends, etc. So there may be a large initial overhead of data. If you were to watch consumption 20 minutes later, it might not be as big, because all of that stuff is already loaded. I don't know why this stuff should require 90 MiB, though.
Maybe the game is just really profligate with its network bandwidth now. I don't know. Good luck.
Edit: Changed 900 to 90, per Hexzyle's post below.