My server averages between 80 and 100 player. There is too much bandwidth used in one day. (about 1 TB) What could be the reason for the increased bandwidth? Is it because of NPC related scripts?
Currently using 6457 artifact.
Over 3TB of outbound bandwidth for about 3 days.
Help Me
That can have a lot of different reasons.
The most obvious one is resource downloads. If you have a lot of new players (or players that think they have to delete their cache every single time) then they always need to stream your addon assets (MLOs, vehicles, clothes etc).
Next up is traffic from events. E.g. opening your inventory will always send all the inventory data to that player. Now do it 20x/second as a lot of players absolutely do for whatever reason. Just an example but there are maaany scripts out there that just send everything instead of the bare minimum.
Then we also have state bags although the same applies as for events.
Are you using voice chat on the same machine? Be it Mumble or an alternative but it will still raise your traffic by a lot.
If you also have your database on another server different to FiveM this will increase your traffic as well of course.