In an era that has developed far, technology and information have changed drastically which has now reached the stage where users can interact with each other even though they are in far away places.
The development of the game industry is also fast where online games are currently growing on various PC platforms, consoles, mobile gaming which offers the best quality graphics, online or multiplayer so it is heavy and requires high response in internet usage.
Have you ever been curious, in about one day the amount of internet usage in Android and PC online games that you spend playing. Let’s see the VazGaming explanation below.
Massive internet usage in Android online games
Do you know? Actually, the use of internet quota in playing online games is not big, you know when compared to watching Youtube, Instagram, and other social media applications.
For example, if you watch a 4K resolution video for 1 hour, you will spend 7 GB of internet quota.
While the comparison of the average internet usage in online games is only 10 MB to 100 MB, you know for 1 hour of playing. But that data can change depending on the number of players in one game.
Here are internet usage data from popular online games:
- PUBG Mobile only consumes 40 MB of data quota for 1 hour
- Free Fire and Fortnite Mobile are also approximately the same 40 MB per hour
- Mobile Legends, AOV, and other MOBAs are more efficient, with an average internet quota of only 5-6 MB assuming one match is 20 minutes.
Including economical what do you think? If it is calculated in a month, it means that you only spend 1.5 GB, you know, assuming that you play 10 times for a month.
Want to know the size of popular android games that will consume a lot of internet quota?
- PUBG Mobile consumes 1.6 GB of data
- Ashpalt 8: Airborne 2 GB and can swell up to 3.5 GB
- Real Racing 3 consumes 2.5 GB of data
- OVA 3 consumes 2 GB of data and when it updates it becomes 3 GB
- Injustice: Gods Among Us consumes more than 2 GB of data
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How to Lower Internet Usage Quota

Still want to be more economical? There are tips, but if you want to follow these tips, you have to sacrifice something, namely image quality. But you will get two advantages, namely the use of internet quota that is more efficient and your cellphone battery is also more efficient.
4 tips to save quota in online games
- Go to game settings and lower the resolution, graphics, quality of the game being played. By lowering the settings, the use of internet data quota will also be economical.
- Disable in game voice chat to make it more efficient, because if it is active it will increase data.
- Disable auto updates for games and applications, besides being economical and will not make your cellphone heat up quickly because if the auto update turns on when you are using the cellphone performance becomes heavy.
- Every smartphone today has a Data Manager feature that functions as a set limit for internet usage, as well as to monitor its use.
How? Practice immediately, if you have any questions, don’t hesitate to leave a comment below.
Massive internet usage in PC online games
Now we will start discussing on the PC platform which of course consumes more internet usage than Android, why? PC is more free to do many activities.
In addition, the PC platform also has excellent graphics and game quality compared to other platforms so that internet data usage is much higher.
Here is a comparison with some of the most popular online games today:
- PUBG consumes around 50 MB of data per hour.
- Dota 2 consumes about 120 MB of data per hour.
- League of Legends consumes about 45 MB of data per hour.
- Counter Strike: Global Offensive consumes about 250 MB of data per hour.
- GTA V can eat about 100 MB of data per hour.
- Overwatch consumes about 135 MB of data per hour.
- Destiny 2 consumes about 300 MB of data per hour.
The data can of course change depending on the number of players with you, if there are few players it will be economical and if there are many examples such as PUBG up to 100 players or GTA 5 if you are playing with many players on one server then internet usage can increase.
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Total Internet Quota Usage on Game Download, DLC, Downloadable Content, Patch
Want to know more about the overall use of internet quota? There is still something you need to know besides the information above. Namely, downloading games, DLC, downloadable content, patches are also the biggest sources of sucking up internet quota, you know.
Unlike most mobile games, their largest size is only 1 or 2 GB. On the PC platform the size of a game can reach tens of GB to hundreds of GB, you know.
The example in the video above is when the VazGaming admin tries to download the GTA V game and see the size.
And there are several other games such as:
- Call of Duty Modern Warfare total data combined with DLC to 137 GB
- Gears of War 4 total data combined with DLC is 350 GB.
- Watch Dogs 2 total data combined with DLC is 50 GB.
- Halo 5 total data bundled with DLC is 100 GB.
Check the game with the largest size in These 17 PC Games with the Largest Size in History!
Surprising isn’t it? Internet quota consumption on a PC is indeed very large compared to Android, you know, so you need to anticipate it.
That’s an explanation of the amount of internet quota usage in Android and PC online games. In addition, make sure you follow some of the tips above so that the use of internet quota in online games can be minimal and not wasteful.