Still off topic. Going by what CoastalDriver said, I'm lucky because do not live too far out in the country, about 100 kilometers from Melbourne, and we have a very fast (30Mb/sec) cable network with their plans getting better all the time. I have friends who live 20 kilometers away who get charged huge amounts for small download limits. I consider myself lucky because the company picked our city to install cable.

As for IVAO or VATSIM, I doubt I would be able to pause FSX in mid flight (not that you can pause it anyway) if I found I really needed to. I have too many bad pain days to allow me the joy of flying without taking a break now and then. ;)

Mark