Destination airports/terrain doesn't load and the plane crashes after clipping through rwy and hitting terrain

Steam version.

No Developer mode.

The issue happens during approach/touchdown. The destination airport is either completely missing, there’s only low-poly model loaded, or the runway is there, but plane clips through it. Instead of smooth touchdown, plane hits the jagged terrain underneath the rwy and flight ends in crash.

Don’t know how to reproduce for sure, but the problem is most likely caused by extremely low speeds at which MSFS communicates with the servers.
MSFS is barely using any of my available bandwidth.
I got a 300Mbit cable connection without any data limit whatsoever, yet MSFS downloads stuff at extremely slow speeds. Sometimes it’s around 10Mbps (which makes it around 1MB/sec, which is obviously not enough - for anything, much less downloading gigabytes of terrain data).
I have never had this kind of problem in any other application whatsoever. My usual download speeds on Steam or Epic are around 40MB/sec.
MSFS was extremely slow to install, and now it’s extremely slow in downloading the terrain.
What’s the reason for it i don’t know. I tried all the usual steps to get rid of the problem on my end, but nothing helped. Every other app/game on my PC downloads data at speeds that match the available bandwidth, NOT MSFS.
Microsoft & Asobo seriously need to rethink the distribution of the data, make deal with the ISPs to stop throttling their particular update/database servers (if that’s what’s happening), or at least create more servers to spread the load.
Minimum requirements to play this game didn’t specify that only customers of certain ISPs can enjoy the game.

CPU:i5, 16GB RAM, GTX1660Super 6GB VRAM, running from SSD.

Build Version # when you first started experiencing this issue: After UPD7.

I had the low bandwidth issue tonight from the Sim and everything turned to ocean! yeah low bandwidth when my computer is showing 497mb/197mb speed! Steam version also.

I really hope they fix these very basic issues! This is not a sim to play in it’s current condition. I have many many hours on it and when it works it’s great. But recently it’s hitting a lot of nerves! I hope Asobo and MSFS really get on this and fix these more basic (server) issues once and for all!

Starting to feel like I should put this aside just like I did with FSX…

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There is also a separate issue that the airports don’t load correctly. This happens to me specially after the 2nd leg of flights. I have filed with Zentek many times but this issue is still there and I see the airport but by the time the actual runway/taxiways load up the sim think I landed on dirt! Again a very basic issue that you would think Asobo/MSFT address quickly but they have not. Hope it gets fixed.