Elite Dangerous Solo play

I just done a quick test on the latest v1.1 beta. On Solo mode it uses around 50 B/sec for send and receive, when loading in data from say the Bulletin Board it jumps to around 2500 B/sec receive. If I remember right the official word was 3MB a hour and 50MB a hour average data usage for solo and online.

As for disconnection tests it was tricky to judge. When in the station, I removed my ethernet cable and nothing happened but as soon as I chose Launch command (to launch the ship) the game gave a disconnection error. I would say you may be lucky if it disconnects at a time when it doesn't require data from the server, anything else may quit the game. Hope that helps.