About to buy gaming laptop,data usage in gaming?

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Guys, for the next 6 months + im going to be moving around from place to place.

Im planning on buying a high end gaming laptop,to play games like PUBG/Overwatch/Fortnite/Battlefield etc.

Ive never owned a laptop so i have a few questions regarding Wifi/Data Dongle.

Whats the best to connect to the online gaming world via a prepaid/monthly dongle subscription? I am looking into buying one of these from mobile phone company (vodaphone).When i can connect to wifi i will,but my questions are when i need to use a dongle (im assuming thats the best way to online game).

How much data would you possibly need,if for instance you played for 3 hrs a night,maybe 10 times a month?

How is the latency/ping? on 4G?

Anything else i should be looking into?

As i said ive never really owned a gaming laptop,but only really want it for watching movies/youtube and online games.

Any help/knowledge be apprecitaed
 
I game frequently in my camper van when away climbing. My laptop is constantly tethered to my phone for 4G service with no ping/drop out issues.

Three mobile tend to have the best data deals.

I get 30GB tethered data with Three included in my standard package for £28 a month.
 
Do you game a lot then,is that package more than enough?

How do you tether your laptop to phone? Sorry for noob question but i never done that and didnt know you could....

Is your ping low? as under 50?
 
I've thought about this but I imagine with only 50gb on my O2 contract it'd quickly disappear when gaming.
 
willhub said:
I've thought about this but I imagine with only 50gb on my O2 contract it'd quickly disappear when gaming.
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Unless you’re downloading/updating games you’d be really hard pushed to use 50GB gaming. Actual online gaming uses surprisingly little data. Under 100mb an hour thereabouts for BF1 fore example.
 
Most games in my experience average around 60MB an hour as long as they aren't streaming extra data and/or doing updates.

On 4G I've had very varied performance - at home I get pretty much no drop outs and a very stable ping in the upper 20s - other places I see say 40-70ms latency with some variation and some places are poor for gaming with 2 or more drop outs an hour and random ping spikes.

EDIT: IIRC PUBG and/or Fortnite have some big updates at times so you'd want to take that into account and if you aren't careful with data settings YouTube and sites like Netflix, etc. can easily get through 10s of GB of data. Other than that actual gaming use won't eat a massive amount of an allowance.
 
Been touring Europe in my campervan for 7 months and game every now and then. Data usage isn't an issue at all for gaming, it's the updates that can cause issue, especially pubg since they're so frequent and large. As for 4g, ping times etc I've had no issues playing fps games all over the place, from towns to remote beaches, with a voice connection at the same time.

Vodafone do a 50gb data sim for £30 a month, that will work out well. You can also add a video pass for £7 if you want unlimited netflix, youtube, prime etc.
 
hmm, about 10 years ago at uni I used a three dongle to play WoW. was totally fine and that was 10 years ago, I can only imagine they have improved a lot.
 
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