How much data am I using?

[ZeusXI]

Im wondering how much data my server is using per day on my wifi bill. 

In Ark, the Ulrta upload speed is 60Kb/s

If I have 1 person connected to the server, and they are on the 60kb/s upload to the server and play for say...6 hours to make numbers even. How much data will be uploaded/downloaded in those 6 hours?

 

[knightslugger]

depends on the bitrate.

[ZeusXI]

Just now, knightslugger said:

depends on the bitrate.

whats the bitrate?

[knightslugger]

probably variable. You'd have to check the video output settings or sample an outputted video. 

 

ETA: you could probably extrapolate based on average bitrate, but that's not the whole story, usually.

[ZeusXI]

1 minute ago, knightslugger said:

probably variable. You'd have to check the video output settings or sample an outputted video. 

 

ETA: you could probably extrapolate based on average bitrate, but that's not the whole story, usually.

your not making any sense...Ark is a game. The upload speed to the server is 60Kb/s 

[Freezanator]

4 minutes ago, ZeusXI said:

your not making any sense...Ark is a game. The upload speed to the server is 60Kb/s 

Then take (60 Kbits x 60 seconds x 60 minutes x 6 hours) / 1024
= 1265.625 Megabits
= 158.2 Megabytes
Also, make sure you know the difference between bits and bytes. Here's a recap: 8 bits = 1 byte.  
B = Bytes
b = bits

[knightslugger]

10 minutes ago, ZeusXI said:

your not making any sense...Ark is a game. The upload speed to the server is 60Kb/s 

OH i thought this was a video streaming thing. very one sided connection.

 

as with any connection, the use is based on uploads and downloads. if you get 100MB of bandwidth, that could be 50MB uploaded and 50 MB downloaded, or any combination of the two adding up to 100MB. every packet that does out must have an ACK packet in response and vice versa. The player could litterally sit in one area and not do anything and have very low output or they could max out the connection and end up with the numbers @Freezanator gave you.

 

it is quite actually highly variable.

[ZeusXI]

1 minute ago, knightslugger said:

OH i thought this was a video streaming thing. very one sided connection.

 

as with any connection, the use is based on uploads and downloads. if you get 100MB of bandwidth, that could be 50MB uploaded and 50 MB downloaded, or any combination of the two adding up to 100MB. every packet that does out must have an ACK packet in response and vice versa. The player could litterally sit in one area and not do anything and have very low output or they could max out the connection and end up with the numbers @Freezanator gave you.

 

it is quite actually highly variable.

so depending on if the player is doing anything or not, the value varies? like they wont use the full 60kbs when just sitting around

 

[knightslugger]

10 minutes ago, ZeusXI said:

like they wont use the full 60kbs when just sitting around

not likely, but again that's predicated on what comes down the pipe from the server. 

 

ETA: If your server IS PUMPING 60 kb/s all the time, then the worst case is slightly worse than the numbers given before (multiple connections to support said connection).