Dear All,

I have a copper broadband connection that gives me a download speed of just under 39 MB/s.

May I ask if anyone is able to successfully run MSFS2024 with an internet connection that has this download speed or slower?

Best regards,

Peter

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 PC System Requirements - Official Microsoft Flight Simulator / News & Announcements - Microsoft Flight Simulator Forums

The official 'ideal' spec is 100 Mbps, recommended is 50.

You can trial the sim on Game Pass to see how you get on...

18 minutes ago, Peterwk said:

May I ask if anyone is able to successfully run MSFS2024 with an internet connection that has this download speed or slower?

 

Mine was 29 mbps and it worked perfectly well.
It's 200 mbps now and it doesn't work any better,
downloads are much quicker though.

12 minutes ago, Reader said:

Mine was 29 mbps and it worked perfectly well.
It's 200 mbps now and it doesn't work any better,
downloads are much quicker though.

Thanks for getting back to me.  I'm going to upgrade my PC (it's about 7 years old now) later this year and I plan to get MSFS2024 after that.  I'm in no rush as MSFS2020 is OK for me currently.

3 hours ago, flyingscampi said:

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 PC System Requirements - Official Microsoft Flight Simulator / News & Announcements - Microsoft Flight Simulator Forums

The official 'ideal' spec is 100 Mbps, recommended is 50.

You can trial the sim on Game Pass to see how you get on...

Thank you for the suggestion.  I'll look into this after my PC upgrade.

Best regards,

Peter

Just dont confuse mbps with MB/s. @Peterwk you have 39MB/s, so a little bit over 300mbps, correct? I doubt it is the other way around, just to make sure. Because flyingscampi talks about 100 Mbps, which equals 12.5MB/s...

3 hours ago, Peterwk said:

Dear All,

I have a copper broadband connection that gives me a download speed of just under 39 MB/s.

May I ask if anyone is able to successfully run MSFS2024 with an internet connection that has this download speed or slower?

Best regards,

Peter

Starlink are offering their excellent satellite internet for no hardware costs.  As long as you have a good view of the sky where the dish is placed, you will get speeds up to 300Mbps (I get an average of 250Mbps).  Excellent solution where ground based options aren't satisfactory.  Mine has been installed for over two years with no problems at all.

1 hour ago, AnkH said:

Just dont confuse mbps with MB/s. @Peterwk you have 39MB/s, so a little bit over 300mbps, correct? I doubt it is the other way around, just to make sure. Because flyingscampi talks about 100 Mbps, which equals 12.5MB/s...

I'm guessing the OP is UK based as 39 Mbps is the average speed of a fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) connection, the most common type, where a cabinet on the street is on a fibre backbone, and houses are connected to it using copper cables from an era before data was transmitted over phone lines.

The good news is there are now a number of companies installing fibre networks and the competition is keeping prices low. I got 1 Gbps fibre last November (just in time for 2024!), upgrading from FTTC.

 

We have a 70Mbps connection at the moment, and Flight Sim works fine.

We will be upgrading it to full fibre very soon as it's now available in our street and our contract has ended.

 

2 hours ago, flyingscampi said:

I'm guessing the OP is UK based as 39 Mbps is the average speed of a fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) connection, the most common type, where a cabinet on the street is on a fibre backbone, and houses are connected to it using copper cables from an era before data was transmitted over phone lines.

The good news is there are now a number of companies installing fibre networks and the competition is keeping prices low. I got 1 Gbps fibre last November (just in time for 2024!), upgrading from FTTC.

 

You are correct in both cases. Unfortunately, it will be some time before I get full-fibre due to cable installation issues.  39MBps is OK for MSFS2020, it just takes a long time to download stuff.

Looks like Microsoft is giving Europe a major cloud upgrade.

https://www.bing.com/search?q=Microsoft+announces+new+European+data+centers&filters=tnTID%3a"A652837A-3D0F-40ad-BD8A-24A39FBEDF4F"+tnVersion%3a"6134317"+Segment%3a"popularnow.carousel"+tnCol%3a"12"+tnOrder%3a"40e7908e-ccae-4a63-8318-38401f0b7272"&FORM=BSPN01&ecount=50

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Edited May 1, 20251 yr by Sky_Pilot071

Try the game pass as they say, a stable connection is more important than download speed in my experience.

It is something that I discovered the hard way with Google Stadia and that fortunately after some research and struggle I was able to enjoy until its last day.

 

Edited May 1, 20251 yr by Aglos77

16 hours ago, AnkH said:

Just dont confuse mbps with MB/s. @Peterwk you have 39MB/s, so a little bit over 300mbps, correct? I doubt it is the other way around, just to make sure. Because flyingscampi talks about 100 Mbps, which equals 12.5MB/s...

In the UK with copper wire, its 29 to 39 mbps, small "b", bits, not bytes.

For anyone who is not sure, 1 MB (byte) = 8 mb (bits)

Downloads are commonly measured in MB (bytes), so a connection of say
32 mbps (bits) will download files at a speed of around 4 MBps (bytes).

Edited May 1, 20251 yr by Reader

1 hour ago, Sky_Pilot071 said:

Looks like Microsoft is giving Europe a major cloud upgrade.

https://www.bing.com/search?q=Microsoft+announces+new+European+data+centers&filters=tnTID%3a"A652837A-3D0F-40ad-BD8A-24A39FBEDF4F"+tnVersion%3a"6134317"+Segment%3a"popularnow.carousel"+tnCol%3a"12"+tnOrder%3a"40e7908e-ccae-4a63-8318-38401f0b7272"&FORM=BSPN01&ecount=50

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I think this story hints to the fact that MS's stated requirements for speeds at the user end are perhaps a little inflated. It gives headroom for support to refer to user end requirements when problems arise when in some cases it probably has more to do with the bandwdith they allocate their end not being sufficient to support the user numbers

 

N.B., please notice I am not using absolute terms and humbly request that the usual bunch don't come galloping in with shiney Armour and impressive lances...Thanks😊

1 hour ago, Reader said:

For anyone who is not sure, 1 MB (byte) = 8 mb (bits)

Thanks for lecturing me, but it was not me using the term "MB/s" wrong obviously 😉 So, 39mbps is tremendously slow, here we would not even call this "broadband". In my case, I am limited by the 2.5Gbit/s onboard network card, otherwise I would get around 8800mbit/s. Now it is "only" 2250mbit/s. With 39mbit/s, I would seriously consider using a cell phone hotspot, or is the cell phone network equally slow in UK? Because even with that I get easily 100-200mbit/s at my location using 4G, with 5G it is even faster...