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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Xatolos@reddthat.com to c/games@lemmy.world

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[-] HorreC@lemmy.world 74 points 2 months ago

Cant wait for how many flight nerds are about to find out about their comcast data caps.

[-] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 47 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Or how many ISPs are going to accuse people of illegal internet activity due to constant large data transfers when its literally just a Flight Simulator lol.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 33 points 2 months ago

your isp already knows youre streamin nonsense from microsoft. this wont trigger anything

[-] Rinox@feddit.it 1 points 2 months ago

Unless you run a VPN

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 1 points 2 months ago

must be some great vpn pushin 180Mb/s

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

It’s public domain music and Linux, I swear!

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

ISPs won't even notice. They don't care about big upload/download unless it's continuous, affecting other users, or they get a legal notice.

[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

Not the case for everyone. I’m regularly throttled watching a long 4k movie on Netflix or trying to download a big game from Steam.

[-] nexguy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

So Comcast users can't have youtube tv?

[-] HorreC@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

The hard cap in my area is 300GB a month, you can only go over twice in a year and its only for 10GB and you pay 50$ each time. If you are over that limit they just shut it off.