OK so this is something probably no one but me tracks but since it's getting to be annoying, here goes..
I get 5 gig of bandwidth a month to suckle from the Internet. I've learned to throttle down to this amount and could play my brains out in CoH and not reach the limit but ever since starting up with CO it is a constant battle. So, now, I'm always keeping my eye on the Bandwidth-O-Meter when playing and when not.
This morning before the patch I logged on to fiddle with costumes and ran 2 alerts. After the servers came down I was greeted with
this. (Antenna was down is why the 2 bars)
Why such relatively huge upload numbers?
Only guesses I have so far are..
1.) It has something to do with creating costumes. Two times that I've noticed 'big' upload spikes like these is when I mainly logged on to make or alter costumes. Generally when I mess with costumes, it's just a fraction of game time spent, so, that could help hide these spikes during normal play.
2.) CO doesn't have anything p2p running in the background does it?