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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 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Unless you run a VPN

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

must be some great vpn pushin 180Mb/s

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day 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.