I found that the installer would crawl along at less than 1 mb/s when not using a vpn but as soon as I connected using a vpn it would go at full speed.
So it makes me wonder if my ISP was intentionally throttling the connection as they could see a ton of game data being downloaded and not an issue with the Microsoft server.
As a test I fired up Steam to update an unrelated game and that also downloaded much faster with a vpn then without.
That’s interesting. I’m in the UK wonder if it was that. It would kind of make sense as the core update took about 8 hours to download, and then once inside I had another further 38GB of updates within the content manager to download. I got all of them in around an hour!
It seems weird that Microsoft wouldn’t have the bandwidth to manage the main update but can let you download in the in game content manager updates at high speed, if there were server issues you’d think they would prioritise the main core update for everyone, not the content manager updates?
Foe me the content manager was only going along at around 10mbps of 70 available
Not really it’s got to be their end as any other game I update or install does it in an expected amount of time and using close to my download speeds.
It doesn’t have to be their end at all. Note the post above yours and some folk were downloading via VPN to circumnavigate their isp’s @ up to 90mb/s. What you usually get on yours has little to do with Asobo. It’s actually a combination of several, resources are stretched but has someone has already pointed out ‘You don’t build a church just for Easter Sunday’.
They don’t keep everything in the same location and if it’s microsoft maybe not even in the same country
At those speeds you’d be better off waiting a day or two … and you’d still probably complete it by about the same time.
I won’t pretend to know all the ins and out of how it works but it must be something between Microsoft severs to the isp because my isp have never limited my speeds only on this flight sim do i ever see ridiculously low speeds. all other games i have ever updated are using most of my available download speeds. Shouldn’t have to use and pay for vpn and wouldn’t use a free one.
If my isp aren’t limiting my download speeds then it must be between the Microsoft servers and reaching the isp’s.
Oh thanks for that, so now I know I must have downloaded something else.
Well i literally paused the download yesterday and done 5gb update on a steam game and it was really quick then a soon as resume the marketplace updates back down to around 10mbps. so you telling me isps have targeted msfs downloads only for limiting speeds but no other game that exists. can also run a speed check and shows normal speeds. No other download I have ever done has gone as low as 0.20 lowest i have ever seen is 67mbps. no point continuing this convo isn’t gonna change anything.
Elsewhere on these pages someone reported downloading the whole sim complete with update in about an hour, why don’t you just ask him?
I see a guy above these posts done the whole thing in around 2 hours good for him doesn’t mean there isn’t an issue for others that isn’t there own fault, especially when so many have been reporting this since release Im in the uk he is in the usa maybe there isn’t an issue there. Maybe the servers in europe can’t cope with the numbers all downloading at the same time.
100 % isn’t my connection to the isp if i have the correct download speeds showing at the point of downloading the updates then the issue has to be between the server and the isp. nothing I can do without paying extra for a vpn maybe the vpn works because you end up receiving data from a different server. I can’t do anything if I get my expected net speeds.
Im gonna do some research find out how these things work so properly understand it.
One of my friends got totally screwed with this update. He started it. It remained at zero percent right through but there was activity on the left, you know, downloading something, unpacking, please wait etc…
He left it for 6 hours thinking it’ll sort itself out but no. All his data has been finished over 100 gigabytes. But progress at zero and ultimately the sim caused his PC to crash.
Once he got it back up and running nothing had updated. In fact even the app had reverted to the old version. His ISP report showed azure servers using 98Gb.
Now he’s updated and I gave him my files from my Official folder so he doesn’t have to pay for another 100gigs of data.
Is there any recourse? Is there anyway he can complain and at least try to get some marketplace credits in return for this absolute fiasco?
Also what do you guys think happened?
My friend is an Ex Captain and I’ve only just got him onboard the sim and he was so impressed and thrilled to revive his passion. But now he’s thinking of throwing his entire pc away after this debacle. He’s a bit dramatic, but still. Poor guy was so upset and frustrated.
I had the same but as soon as I saw what was happening I forced the download to close and started the game again which would then work as planned. I had to ‘nurse maid’ the download for 35 hours. I still got through some extra GBs though.
Stuttgart region…i have 200Mbit with unitymedia/vodafone… steam downloads at 21Mbyte/s which is my 200Mbit bandwith… while FS downloader is fluctuating between 1 and 3 Mbits/s which is around 300KB/s
Stuttgart isn’t that much bigger than Nürnberg where I am so I’m surprised you got hit so bad. Mind you they always say a chain is only as strong as it’s weakest link and that could be literally anywhere inbetween you and the server.
turning off IPV6 boosted the downlaod to 100+Mbits…then it throttled back down to 1-3Mbit… then i turned back on IPV6.. it went back up to 100+Mbit and then dropped back again… the download speed are getting thorttled down at the server side i guess
I haven’t a clue either. Maybe you live nextdoor to a bitcoin farmer 
Download doesn’t work. I can download 1 file at once. Then it stucks as shown in the video. Any solutions?
Not a sequence
Reset router.
Delete offending file and start over.
Use a LAN cable.
Remove splitter device if there is one and plug in direct.
Reset router again.
Wait for a less busy time where you are.
Contact your ISP and tell them to reset your internet.
Give up (never).
Otherwise ask someone who is good with networking (I’m not although I get by)