With all the net neutrality hubbub going on, not that I believe anything terrible will come of it, I got curious about one thing: how much bandwidth does league take up compared to streaming 1080p videos on things like netflix, youtube, twitch, or that adult site?
ModDaenrysTargaryen9 votesI can give you some information though im not "Riot's Network People" Streaming a 10 min 1080p youtube video is ~277 MB A game of league can be from 10mb to 30 mb so its not that big
Sources https://boards.euw.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/help-support-en/LeAz1YXP-how-much-data-usage-does-an-average-game-of-lol-use https://www.quora.com/How-much-data-does-a-YouTube-video-consume-1
Linna Excel2 votesOh, that's pretty low. 30 MB for a game that runs an hour is a drop in the bucket compared to a 90 minute video.
RiotRiot Penrif14 votesThe numbers check out.
Video is a lot of information. Even with good quality modern compression, filling a 1080p screen at 30hz requires far more numbers than the game state of League. If you think about it that way, you can draw a relation between, say, knowing the position of a unit - 3 32-bit numbers, to the color of 12 pixels with 8-bit color channels.
That particular comparison isn't fair to video - the compression techniques there are very well developed past the concept of sending individual color information, but the general idea illustrates why the difference is so big.
Linna Excel2 votesThanks. I figured league would be on the lower end of bandwidth, especially if you realize not all the players are even in the US.