Xatolos@reddthat.com to Gaming@beehaw.org · 1 month agoMicrosoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hourwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square67fedilinkarrow-up167arrow-down10cross-posted to: games@lemmy.world
arrow-up167arrow-down1external-linkMicrosoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hourwww.tomshardware.comXatolos@reddthat.com to Gaming@beehaw.org · 1 month agomessage-square67fedilinkcross-posted to: games@lemmy.world
minus-squareSavvyWolf@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month ago… Uh, 180Mb/s is only 1.35GB an hour… Also, “up to”? Does usage go down when everything is already downloaded? Because that will cause a significant reduction in overall data costs. This just seems like a poor article tbh.
minus-squareSkelemental@mastodon.gamedev.placelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month ago@savvywolf @Xatolos agree the article is probably disingenuous about real data usage but 180 / 1000 / 8 * 60 * 60 = 81
… Uh, 180Mb/s is only 1.35GB an hour…
Also, “up to”? Does usage go down when everything is already downloaded? Because that will cause a significant reduction in overall data costs.
This just seems like a poor article tbh.
@savvywolf @Xatolos agree the article is probably disingenuous about real data usage but 180 / 1000 / 8 * 60 * 60 = 81