PlayFab is now owned by Microsoft, since 2018.
I just watched a couple of smaller downloads. I saw the same behavior for all of them. They started slow, but got faster the further they progressed. One download even looked like the download speed was 1/2 * progress bar state.
Check this out:
Hereās another one. It seems like this package consists of multiple parts, the download of each part starts slowly and then accelerates rapidly once a certain threshold is reached.
It seems to be quite stable to reproduce. I guess thereās something broken with the throtteling either on client or on server side.
Itās really a shame this gets such a low priority.
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/3sQGchnJlzk (available in 20 minutes)
I have an 1000/1000 MBit/s connection. Effectivly I can get 800 MBit/s with SpeedTest.
Iāve had to reinstall, but are getting NOWHERE with the Content Manager download with only 2.5 MBit/s download speed. That is like less than Ā½ % of my bandwidth! - That is ONE HALF OF ONE PROCENT of my bandwidth.
Microsoft, you need to do better!
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Fellow simmers, that use Proton.
Do you use the free or paid version?
Is Xbox Pass free download version considered free?
I built a new PC over Christmas. i714700k, 4TB nvme Gen 4 game drive with a WD 850X 1TB nvme Gen 4 for OS drive. High end Gigabyte MB, 48GB Trident Z memory running at 7200 and an evga FTW 3080ti.
My downloads have been better. Nowhere near where they should be, but better.
For contrast, on my old pc, a 20GB steam download would take about 10-15 minutes. Now the same update takes maybe 30-40 seconds. Thatās download, patch and verification. I have 1gb x 100mb fiber.
MSFS loads in about a minute. I have not tried the Caribbean update.
This is 100% a MS/Asobo problem. I have no other issues with downloads from anywhere. Itās a shame that you cant get the core updates from Steam. It is smokinā fast.
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Max speed was close to 2Mbit/s here today.
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Sam results here in PNW. Would be nice if MS would just update this the same way DCS offers updates via Torrent. Time to stop this dance all Microsoft is doing at this point is losing customers given that seems to be the biggest complaint.
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On Xbox Series X, been trying to download the PMDG 737-700 from the content manager for almost two hours now. Downloads about 52mb, stops and resets. Iāve hard reset my Xbox twice now and it makes zero difference. Iāve about had enough of this and will not be purchasing anything else. I canāt even enjoy the airplane I purchased because of an issue out of my hands.
Using a VPN isnāt the answer and it shouldnāt even be a recommendation by a multi-billion dollar company. They have known about this since June 2023 and yet have no answer for it.
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Consider yourselves lucky. I havenāt even able to load up the sim period for two days now. Firing up MSFS also tanks my upload/download speeds in general. Everything grinds to a complete stop. Ending FS (via task manager) restores my connection to normal. I donāt know what theyāve done, but from what Iāve been reading across the web, this update has been a disasterā¦ Everything was working OK for me up until Friday nightā¦ Iām in Ontario Canada hereā¦
I read about Proton VPN in this thread.
Today I downloaed the software. The free version doesnāt allow for new accounts to choose a server abroad. It only allows to automatically connect to the fastest server, which is always in the same country, meaning Europe, meaning slow download.
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After several CTDĀ“s and investing in a new 4TB SSD, I decided to spend the weekend for a new installation.
But as so many other simmers, a weekend seems not to be enough. Download speeds are fluctuating, but most of the time it is arround 2-3 Mbit/s.
My glassfiber-connection and hardware can not be the bottle-neck.
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I just read this comment here
Slow speeds with MSFS - Playfab Community
Asobo admitted that this is server side error, related to legacy PlayFab CDN they are still using, affecting mostly Europe. Seems like they are unable to find a solution within various Microsoft teams, especially the one maintaining the CDN.
The bug report is about download speed in content manager. The problem is, that the downloads are abysmally slow not only in the content manager, also for the regular updates.
Why should we continue reporting? With several hundreds of slow download speed reports Asobo should be well aware that they should finally solve it with the PlayFab CDN folks.
They arent really doing anything about it. Its been a known issure for ages and nothing has improved at all. In this day and age we shouldnt be facing this problem at all and the issue should be easily fixed. Yet its notā¦ If they really are doing something about it then they should post in this discussion. The Q&A didnt reveal anything.
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They canāt do anything about it since they are using Amazon to store their game data to download and install. They are using Amazon Web Services to do store the data. I used Netstat to verify it.
What arguments did you use?
Was not able to DL WU16 since it came out, downspeed was 0.5 to 2 MBit at best. (internet is fine, 150MBit everywhere else).
Gave up on it, deleted the few downloaded MBs and put it in the not-installed category for good (itās not that important to me).
Few days ago i encountered the ābandwidth too low for streamingā error for the first time ā checked internet, it was fine, so it was the sim.
Out of curiosity i tried the following:
In the data menue i switched off all online functionalities and applied with F11.
Then I enabled them again and set the bandwidth limit (also in the data menue) to 40Mbits, just to see how the sim would behave then.
Started the same scenario where i had the too low bandwidth before and the error was gone.
Disabled the bandwidth limit again and tried the same flight again ā all good.
Of course then i tried to DL the WU16 and out of a sudden it was downloaded with a constant 140-150Mbit.
I donāt know why or how, and maybe/probably itās just coincidence, but wanted to share this anyways.