How much Bandwidth does Minecraft actually use?

[FroggyKnight]

Hello.

I'm planning on purchasing a reverse-proxy or VPN service to protect my home-hosted network. And I was wondering how much Bandwidth does Minecraft **ACTUALLY** use?

For example: Let's say I have a network with around 100 players concurrently joining/leaving. How much bandwidth would that actually be sending (upload).

Thank you.

 

[1337]

Hello.

I'm planning on purchasing a reverse-proxy or VPN service to protect my home-hosted network. And I was wondering how much Bandwidth does Minecraft **ACTUALLY** use?

For example: Let's say I have a network with around 100 players concurrently joining/leaving. How much bandwidth would that actually be sending (upload).

Thank you.

1. I highly recommend against home-hosting production MC networks, especially if you're at 100+ players and are looking into a solution like properly protecting against attacks.
2. What solution are you thinking of? If it's something like x4b, you're not gonna have a fun time and the fact it's likely a dynamic IP will make it very hard to maintain this protection (and it isn't really that good of an idea in the first place considering the extra latency and cost)
3. You would be much better off just looking for a proper hosting provider that offers protection instead of attempting to use your non-commercial service for something demanding like this.
4. To answer your actual question, since you're on a home connection that is likely shared, it is almost impossible to say without more information. If you have family living with you that uses the internet as well, anything below 200Mbit/s will likely be a bad time. If it's an option, I wouldn't get anything below 1Gbit/s if you're actually serious about reliability/scalability.

 

[FroggyKnight]

1. I highly recommend against home-hosting production MC networks, especially if you're at 100+ players and are looking into a solution like properly protecting against attacks.
2. What solution are you thinking of? If it's something like x4b, you're not gonna have a fun time and the fact it's likely a dynamic IP will make it very hard to maintain this protection (and it isn't really that good of an idea in the first place considering the extra latency and cost)
3. You would be much better off just looking for a proper hosting provider that offers protection instead of attempting to use your non-commercial service for something demanding like this.
4. To answer your actual question, since you're on a home connection that is likely shared, it is almost impossible to say without more information. If you have family living with you that uses the internet as well, anything below 200Mbit/s will likely be a bad time. If it's an option, I wouldn't get anything below 1Gbit/s if you're actually serious about reliability/scalability.

Thank you. The service I was looking at does 500Mb/s so that'd work. The only reason I was looking for a proxy/vpn was because I have extra dedis that I can utilize without having to purchase an actual host. But I mean honestly in the end actually buying a paid dedi monthly would be the best bet. Anyways, thank you.