BGP uses TCP to establish neighbor relationships with neighboring routers. This has nothing to do with the end user, nor end to end connections. This is purely to facilitate the exchange of routing tables between adjacent routers. These routing tables determine the route traffic takes, the end user resetting a connection on their end has no influence on it. If these routes did not already exist you could not connect period. It is these routes that determine how traffic from your ISP connects to any destination on the internet.
But this is all way off topic. I encourage people to do their own research on it and draw their own conclusions.
My internet is rather slow (and there will be no changes for the oncoming years) thatĀ“s why it is impossible to use photogrammetry and satellite images and other new features the Flight Sim has to offer.
But I have 15 Terabytes of drive space (thank you, Western Digital Black drives!) so I would absolutely love an oncoming feature to download whole states with one mouse-click overnight and be able to use the full possibilities and graphics quality this sim has to offer, but offline.
I donāt know itās the same issue, but I recently get through flights a messages, that Iām offline. If I click OK it will tell me after a while, that Iām connected again. That happens frequently now through flights. A little bit annoying.
If it makes you feel any better, I have 1 Gbit fibre, live in urban Ontario, and Iāve been getting the same thing pretty much every day since SU5 launched. Itās not you. Itās them.
I get a constant 230 Mb/s download speed and my buildings will not load until I am right on top of them. If I pause and wait a minute, I can get everything to load. After a year of dealing with this terrible sim and now SU5 flushing it further down the toilet, I have a few choice words that I will keep to myself for now.
Just posed a topic on this, looking at my network use as I fly, for some reason I only get decent bandwidth at very low level, anything higher and it gets pulled right back. Very strange.
Iām on the East coast but have awful speeds to MS Servers on a Bell Fibe 1.5Gbps connection. Itās been like that for me since the Tech Alpha. I tried contacting Bell, spent many hours on the phone with managers, but they are steadfast in their assessment that the issue is with MS.
I ran a bunch of testing scenarios and sent them to Zendesk yesterday for them to look at.
For me, if I use a VPN, I can change the download server that I get updates from and my download speeds go from 13Mbps up to close to 300Mbps (when connected to New York on VPN). I feel like this rules out problems with my computer, and equipment and the issue has to lie with either the provider (Bell) or server (MS). Hopefully somebody eventually looks at some of these servers.
I wish that MS would give users the option to change servers on the download screen. From what I can tell, what server you download from is being selected solely based on your physical location without any regard to what server is fastest for you. Having the ability to change locations would provide some relief for those of us who have connection issues either because of the server or because of a dreadfully slow hop on the route we take to that server.
My download speeds have always been very good with MSFS, (I started at Alpha 4), and SU5 was no exception. My internet is provided by Spectrum cable. I am located in south central New York State. It is a 200MB service, and SU5 streamed at almost the full 200MB on the larger files, with no slowdown and no looping. That was my experience with the initial release version last August, and with every succeeding sim and world update since then.
I do have a top-end router, (a Netgear RAXE500), but I think the main reason that I have consistent good results with MSFS bandwidth is that (typically), there are only three intermediate hops between Spectrumās backbone network and the Azure US East server. In my case, that is ājust the luck of the drawā.
If the MS/Azure/Asobo servers being overloaded was the cause for slow downloads and slow streaming, then everyone would be impacted equally.
We get to choose the servers we use. Currently my server response time is 28 ms. Should I change it to the server with 205 ms response time? No, because download and streaming times and multiplayer lag would be a lot longer.
You are 100% correct in your statement.
But you have other people saying they have no problem their average down load is 212 MBps. It is obvious that you have to take their statements with a grain of salt.
I also have 50Mbps Download speed , and i also get this low bandwidth message. I never had this problem before , i get this message 5 minutes after takeoff from small Caribbean country like Dominican Republic or any small island. Seem to be some other problem not internet.
You also have people who play the sim problem free and people who are plagued with problems. I donāt know what causes said problems, but they are there and theyāre real. And I donāt believe that most of them are self inflicted or on the userās end.
I was getting 7Mbps to 54Mbps download depending on city or country. Looking
at my Task Manager under Network before the update.
Now 300Kbps to 800Kbps max on a 400Mbps service.
My feeling for the possible cause.
To many users server load?
Since the reduction of available CPU and GPU Ram is the program rejecting the scenery because it has no Ram space to put it in?
Did Asobo limit the download speed because of the additional users?
We first seen this slowdown during the 40GB and 20GB update?
I really donāt know because we have no information what Asobo did in the update.
From August of last year to January of this year, I was downloading updates at over 400 Mbits. From February to April, I was downloading at under 20 Mbits. Every update since, Iāve been at about 100-150.