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[SOLVED] How to reduce mobile data usage playing W:A?

Started by Sensei, October 29, 2015, 12:45 PM

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Sensei

I don't know how and why, but my mobile data goes over the roof when i use phone as a modem to play w:a. For example, yesterday i had 600 mb, today i'm on 90!?  Was surfing maybe 10 minutes and played 2 online games of worms.

Last time it used maybe 1 mb per game. But it was another pc (i've had net.framework, wormkit modules, hosted games over ip...)

What could be the cause of the problem on this pc?

Or maybe it's position where I'm situated atm (25-30 km far from nearest city) that made my mobile phone acting so weird..

If anyone have any suggestion how to solve this, pls answer and be quick.. this 90 mb left wont be to hard to spend :(

Tomi

I think the easiest way to check network traffic is to right click on taskbar and open task manager. There choose tab performance. At the bottom of that tab press the button Resource monitor to open it and choose tab Network. Then play or something and let it monitor the network traffic. After a while you can find out which process is harmful.


Sensei

I'll try that and post here later.
Usually checking usage on phone, but it doesn't show which part of pc spends how much data.. But nevertheless, when only worms was turned on it spent 10 mb on 1 shopper game (instead of max 1 mb). Yesterday I joined tus for couple of minutes and it spent 100+ mb.  Very weird, I'm intrigated now to find out wtf is going on.

Ty senor Tomi ;)


CyberShadow

Playing W:A online should use negligible amount of data except for color maps. Its' entirely plausible for color maps to use a lot of data, especially if the host is e.g. spamming !map. You can use very little data if you host games yourself and never use color maps.

TUS is pretty resource-heavy - the default theme loads many images, and people post a lot of large images or .GIF files in the shoutbox, and in their signatures and avatars (guilty as changed). You can disable those TUS features to use less data.

That said, it still shouldn't add up to 500 MB. It's possible something else is eating your data, so I'd follow Tomi's advice.

XanKriegor

Try NetLimiter software, it can show you which program uses your inet connection and how much it do.

Sensei

Founded a problem and fixed it. Better late then never!
Like I said - this is another pc and didn't know that Windows update is activated. When I hooked phone on computer, updates basically just ate my megabytes. Ofc - automatic updates is now turned off, and everything is back to normal.
So, I feel a bit stupid tbh. But maybe this would be helpful to some ppl that don't like to use brain from time to time.
Thank you all.

Cheers!

XanKriegor

Autoupdates are first shit that i turn off after OS installation)) Second is Windows "Firewall" xD Gratz.

StepS

If you're on Windows 10 Home where you can't turn off automatic updates (other than by disabling the Windows Update service), make sure that the connection type for your mobile connection is set to "Metered", then it won't download updates automatically.
Dec 30 2013 23:59:44 <StepS> windowed mode isn't the only thing you need about frontend
Dec 30 2013 23:59:49 <StepS> you need it to be actually bigger
Dec 31 2013 00:00:13 <StepS> it actually is very small on my 15-inch full HD screen
Dec 31 2013 00:00:25 <StepS> while running at 640x480 or stretched mode makes it fuzzy
Dec 31 2013 00:00:44 <StepS> this problem has been around since the Worms Armageddon's release and no one has even tried to beat it
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Rabbzz

Quote from: StepS on November 29, 2015, 09:33 AM
If you're on Windows 10 Home where you can't turn off automatic updates (other than by disabling the Windows Update service), make sure that the connection type for your mobile connection is set to "Metered", then it won't download updates automatically.

Thank you i will be using this soon as I am moving and will only have my mobile for net  :)

Will this also stop auto updates from other programs? Or will i have to turn them off my self?

KinslayeR

if u watched 2 porns and played 1 min in worms, it still could be 700 mb transfer. 

Rabbzz

Quote from: StepS on November 29, 2015, 09:33 AM
If you're on Windows 10 Home where you can't turn off automatic updates (other than by disabling the Windows Update service), make sure that the connection type for your mobile connection is set to "Metered", then it won't download updates automatically.
Can't find where to change the connection to metered? Did a google search and that didn't help either. Could you please explain?  :)


edit: Never mind found it :)