I was thinking about this yesterday so I ran an experiment to see how much bandwidth the game actually uses. I set my router to monitor the bandwidth and reset it just before I entered a game. After the game ended I checked the results and refreshed the totals. Up stream 2.57 megabytes, down stream 1.44 megabytes. The game ran 6:12 so that's 8*2.57/372 to get my bit rate 0.0548 megabits per second, well within my upload rate which is 1.5 megabits per second. The odd part of this, or at least a surprise to me, was that the up stream was greater than the down stream. Was I host on that game, I don't think I was, but maybe something I read about the game might explain a few things.
Now don't take this as fact as it is what I have heard and theorize. In previous versions of the game only basic statitics were uploaded. Black Ops and MW3 upload a lot more statistical data. In addition, to stop people from power down to avoid recording a bad game, statistical data is sent throughout the game not just when the game ends, as in previous versions. The enhanced data and the frequency of the updates during the game, add to the upload requirements. In addition I have heard these progressive updates were installed as part of one of the patches. Is this true, I don't know but it may explain why the lag is worse. Of course this is all hear say, but if true, I would have to guess this happend on update 1.08. Anybody have a packet sniffer to verify what is being sent and when?
