This one package has been hanging for days:
an airport package in zurich. Just won’t download.
Hello @InitiatedAunt74,
I have created this topic for you from another post.
Have you tried stopping the download, exit from MSFS and physically delete those files in the folder they are downloading to?
The problem is also that the downloads in marketplace are divided into that fspackage.001, 002 and so on files… sometimes you download luckily 1 GB with Top Speed of the 001 file and then sometimes it resets itself while going back to 2 MBit turtle speed… and the downloader tries to download the file again… omg what a mess… really
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my 002 file of orbx ESSB (Bromma, Sweden) is stuck in some kind of loop. Starting over… And general DL speed is a…well, a joke.
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I shall say; its working now. My solution was to download first thing after restart, then give it some time (take a coffee). =)
The files do not exist in the actual destination folder yet, and I don’t know where the download file temporary files are being stored so that I could delete them.
Is there some TEMP folder that is different than the destination install folder?
My workaround was to fire up a VPN and choose Australia as my location, even though I am located in Canada. This worked around whatever glitch the Asobo/MS CDN has with delivering content.
Pretty much all the content in Content Manager and in the mandatory updates is unable to download at any speed faster than 0.5 Mbit/s, and eventually drops to 0.00 like this, unless I use a vpn:
This is 148 megabyte file, should be downloaded in two seconds, but MSFS/Asobo’s CDN/hosting/download service is broken apparently.
Giving things time is fine, but 4-8 days to download 60-120 gigabytes, when that represents about 0.5% of my speedtest speed, is not acceptable.
We can’t see as users what the server side is doing, but if certain files are slower than others, it may be because whatever shards/nodes in the MS CDN, which is probably a big pile of Azure stuff, are being effectively DDOS’d by the effective loads of the global user base. If Microsoft/Asobo even have SREs, they’re not doing much about this, as this complaint has been consistent since the product’s initial release.
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