Starcraft – How Feasible is StarCraft 2 over LTE

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I would like to play StarCraft 2 over an LTE connection but I have two primary concerns:

  1. My LTE data pool is not unlimited. How much data, on average, does StarCraft 2 consume?

  2. My LTE ping is about 90 ms – will this cause me to be perpetually lag in the game?

Has anyone else tried playing StarCraft 2 over LTE? Can anyone say whether it worked for them or not?

Edit: 90 ms was my ping on my iPhone 6+ in an office building (work). When I got home, I ran a few different tests:

  • Broadband + Ethernet: 34 ms
  • LTE straight to iPhone: 40 ms
  • LTE tethered over Wifi: 66 ms
  • Broadband over Wifi: 67 ms <- (This is how I normally play)
  • LTE tethered over Bluetooth: 99 ms (also dropped packets?)

I tested my ping via this website.

Best Answer

According to http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/248106158

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OK now down to the estimates that I got off my testing.

  • 2v2 against the A.I. on EASY came up to 2.2Mb an hour
  • 2v2 against the A.I on MEDIUM came up to 2.7Mb an hour
  • 2v2 against the A.I. on HARD came up to 3.9Mb an hour
  • 3v3 against the A.I. on EASY came up to 5.1Mb an hour
  • 3v3 against the A.I. on MEDIUM came up to 6.4Mb an hour
  • 3v3 against the A.I on HARD came up to omg 11.4Mb an hour

You can most certainly carry out your own testing with DU Meter. You should obviously perform this with your current provider before jumping ship.

90 ms ping time sounds like it should not be an issue unless you are an extremely competitive player and expect LAN pings over LTE then that would be simply unreasonable. This ping will also vary based on how far away the server is physically located from you.

One more thing to consider:

I am not sure where your 90 ms ping time came from but if it was achieved by simply using an app on your phone then you can expect the average ping time to increase if you are using your phone as a hot-spot for your computer. If your ping time increases to 100 ms then I think you should still be good. Going above 150 would be considered "starting to get bad"

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