Apex Legends high bandwidth usage 2Mbps download
I am currently trying to play Apex Legends on an internet plan that has a data limit and I was wondering what was the explanation for this much data being received whilst playing a control match.
I looked through several posts to see if anyone else was experiencing this much data transmission and reports on average were 400Kbps being necessary to play a regular Trios game. It also seems to have no cap on how much data is being received, the faster my download speed the more the game transmits.
This data usage is on par with cloud streaming a game at 720p. This YouTube video: https://youtu.be/9PfFPW9a90w?t=322 analyses the bandwidth usage. The data being downloaded is completely ridiculous and I do not know of any other game with this much of a network requirement for a game with subpar dedicated servers. Surely there is a low bandwidth setting because 2/3Mbps download is too much. Even when I am in the menu it demands these ridiculous speeds, there is simply not enough going on during my game session to justify this. Sometimes its not just 'r5apex.exe', sometimes its 'Service Host: Network Service - DNS Client' which handles the bulk of the downstream. I suspended the process in my Task Manager and it closed r5apex.exe along with it.
In short, what can players do when r5apex.exe is utilizing 90% of my download speed?