• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

Now about that bandwidth

Looks like it will be demanding for sure. If one lives in a household with multiple gamers / users, this may cause problems. I wonder how the people on the bandwidth periphery are going to do with low data transfer. I think this idea, while good for many, will knock out some totally from owning this variation. I like the days where the sim was self-contained, but that's hindsight. Be nice if one could isolate a preferred area and have that segment or segments dedicated to their hard-drive, but I guess that may be MSFS2028! LOL!

Don BP;)
 
I think I'll just about be okay until my wife starts watching Netflix on TV and video-calling the kids on her phone:

1728997468954.jpeg
 
Well. that sure brought to light why I still am using P3D V5 - their V6 required internet connection as well. No thanks.
 
Wow. I have a 1 Gig connection, but a 1.2 tb (1200 GB) data cap.

If 81 GB per hour is true, I would get at most 15 hours of play time before I hit the cap, and probably less when taking in to account that I also use my home internet connection for work as well as Tv and other things for the family.

MSFS24 is turning into wait and see thing for me.
 
This will also put me in the waiting list. Even considering a new rig for MSFS24 I will not be able to work around a bandwith bottleneck. Also runnung smooth just above 1 Gig, but if this means I have to cut down ingame settings to make it run looking just like MSFS20 then why should I take the plunge?:confused: Especially since I am not particularly longing for all the mission/career gimmicks...
 
Cell based ISP's are going to have to be looked at carefully. Most of those have caps. My Spectrum has no limit that I'm aware of, so I should be fine. That said, I'm still going to be storing most planes I fly regularly on my local computer so that I can make my usual tweaks like steering angles and diff. braking.
 
As mentioned by Browncoat, I also have a 1 GB connection with a 1.2 TB per-month data cap - between MSFS 2020 and Netflix, I've gotten rather close to that cap over the summer months when I'm not working. With the base install size of just 30 GB, MS/Asobo recommends using at least a 20-30 GB or greater cache with MSFS 2024. As Tom has mentioned, I also plan on downloading as much of the content as allowable and feasible to my PC, such as all of the MSFS 2024 aircraft I'll be flying, so they won't have to be downloaded from the cloud every time I choose them. I've also been thinking of why not using a 100 GB or greater cache, with the room on my HD to spare, especially with select areas I tend to fly around the most.
 
Last edited:
Here’s an article from my feed that seems to provide a some what more balanced view.

www.techradar.com

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 hits turbulence with reports of the game bringing internet connections to their knees – but don’t grab the sick bag just yet

Stormy skies ahead for those with limited data on their internet connection?
www.techradar.com www.techradar.com

I’m still more of a wait a see on things. Honestly, I’m perfectly happy with MSFS20 along with the few addon aircraft that I have while the details for MSFS24 get sorted out.
 
180mb/s is quite a bit of bandwidth for a game is it not? We don't have that capability, so it's a wait and see for me.
 
The internet is slow to begin with in my neighborhood, especially in the evening.

The issue that I am facing is that my old "analog" cables need to be replaced with the cable company's newer cables. However, the Catch 22 is that the cable company cannot upgrade the old cables buried within the wall and floor cavities. So their "upgraded" fiber-optic cable service stops at the exterior wall box of the house.

I think I still have an old boxed version of FS2004 sitting in the garage somewhere. For me, that might end up being the future of flight simming.

:)

Tommy
 
Whats the verdict people running with now its been released, anyone with a slower connection speed <180mb/s hit that connectivity wall ?
 
I'm at 40-60mb/s with my cellular ISP. It actually does pretty well. The loading times are longer for flights to precache the scenery, but it holds its own once I'm in. Likely. if I flew fast jets down low, it would be hard to keep up, but for what I do the most (GA, bush, and helos), it works fine.

P.S. I also have Starlink, but that's for work and the rest of the family. Although I might have to consider a swap if necessary :)
 
Last edited:
We have about 52 down 18 up and its not awful still runs relatively smoothly, but you do tend to have to wait for photogrammetry to load higher resolutions which is a shame, but understandable - from higher up you don't really notice.
 
I live in the Sub Arctic where my provider, Starlink has insufficient satellite coverage so sometimes it works well, sometimes not. Not anticipating any great improvements soon. But it does work though despite things dragging down when users cram the system. Football games and kids on Saturday morning.
 
Bomber_12th said:
As mentioned by Browncoat, I also have a 1 GB connection with a 1.2 TB per-month data cap - between MSFS 2020 and Netflix, I've gotten rather close to that cap over the summer months when I'm not working. With the base install size of just 30 GB, MS/Asobo recommends using at least a 20-30 GB or greater cache with MSFS 2024. As Tom has mentioned, I also plan on downloading as much of the content as allowable and feasible to my PC, such as all of the MSFS 2024 aircraft I'll be flying, so they won't have to be downloaded from the cloud every time I choose them. I've also been thinking of why not using a 100 GB or greater cache, with the room on my HD to spare, especially with select areas I tend to fly around the most.
Click to expand...
John - I have a lot slower broadband speed unfortunately. If we can have the aircraft and maybe some fav airports loaded on our hard-drives that just leaves the scenery/photogrammetary cloud access to solve. Local cache there I guess. Not the way I was hoping this was going to pan out.
 
Cheers, as I live in a house work provides the best speed i get is 43mb/s and when my boys are home it drops significantly. The price and speed of starlink doesnt really add any value.
 
I'm hosed for the foreseeable future. Three kids, lots of devices dragging down the bandwidth. Not sure what high speed options are available in our area.
 

Attachments

  • Screenshot_20241202-174548.png
    Screenshot_20241202-174548.png
    127.8 KB · Views: 18
Wah hail, I live in the internet skimpy sub arctic bit the new sim works OK, even with 2020 I used to get the irritating lost internet message blocking my view. 2024 is no worse with smaller and less irritating messaging. Sometimes loading will be longer, but "wahhail".
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top