Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour

bigredcar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  ISPs are unshamable and a flight sim is a niche application.

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• yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Who cares about shame when you have no competition? In your dreams.

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• tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I get Gigabit over coax tho

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  • MSids@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    DOCSIS 3.1 is pretty awesome. I heard 4.0 is in testing. Fiber (FttH) is similar to coax in that many subscribers are attached to one head end device. Subscriber throughput is determined by the number of subscribers and the speeds they ordered on the shared resource. Although fiber is leading in total capacity per OLT/PON, it’s not like coax can’t achieve excellence subscriber speeds by just deploying more head end devices with fewer subscribers on each.

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    upload too? cause coax upload sucks ass

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    • ngwoo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Best I can get is 1000/300 which is far from symmetrical but also far from sucking ass.

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      • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        yeah not bad at all for coax

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    • tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Nope, upload fucking sucks. 50 MB/s. It got worse this spring, like 30 Mb/s, so I opened a ticket and a technician came over to calibrate our house connector (?).

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      • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        complaining a bout 50MB/s upload is a champagne problem.

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• EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think the thing to note here is that ISPs roll those things out fully aware that hardly anyone who pays for that will actually USE that amount of data. In fact there are some places where regardless of your bandwidth, you have a monthly data allotment. This game represents a shift into super high bandwidth usage for the general non-technical population. If everyone and their mom starts actually using all the bandwidth they pay for, can the ISP deal with that? If you don’t have a monthly data limit, do they start to roll those out to you and your area?

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• Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They’ll still cap you at 250Gb a month.

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    idk, I upload almost 1TB per day. never gotten notices or anything. fios.

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• Damaskox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I won’t be upgrading my 50mbit download/10mbit upload 😂

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