Glad that worked for you. Could you let us know where you’re located physically so others in your vicinity could use the same solution till Asobo/Microsoft add a feature to MSFS 2020 that has it connect to the fastest CDN and not the closest CDN?
I live in Central Ohio. Occasionally it would drop off, but all I’d do is pause the download, disconnect my VPN, reconnect to the Seattle VPN server and it took off again. My ISP is Spectrum.
-Rick
Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
I have the same issue. I am in Singapore and downloading maps or getting live data seems to be coming from a server 160ms away. I am on a 10gpbs symmetrical link. Downloading updates takes hours at average speed of 1-2 gig while my account supposed to be connected to a server 4ms away in Singapore.
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Cdn doesn’t seem to be working or wrong cdn is selected.
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