Bandwidth still too low

[TopperHarley]

It's just a mess to leave people hanging like that.
With the VPN switched on, nothing is a problem, the game runs fine apart from the extreme number of bugs.
VPN off immediately comes back and the bandwidth is too low and missions don't start at all despite waiting 25 minutes.

Reimbursement is no longer possible. Nicely fooled

[DarkWolf]

Im currently not able to play. Long loading times, and start flight not possible. Bandwidth error. Trying to exit the game, it hangs. I have to kill the process in task manager. Till release i was only able to play less an hour. Thats not what i paid for.

[NothingButTheBlues]

Originally posted by DarkWolf:

Im currently not able to play. Long loading times, and start flight not possible. Bandwidth error. Trying to exit the game, it hangs. I have to kill the process in task manager. Till release i was only able to play less an hour. Thats not what i paid for.

Deutsche Telekom? Try changing DNS, find my thread about Crashes/low bandwith here. Also completely uninstall and install freshly.

[Eleven]

i have Telekom too, normaly no Problems, just in the early Evening Hours between 17.00-21.00 Hour i get here in Germany Bandwith Problems with MS Flightsimulator 2024. Maybe still not enough Servers in European Region who can handle the Players in the Evening ?

[Speyde]

Originally posted by Eleven:

i have Telekom too, normaly no Problems, just in the early Evening Hours between 17.00-21.00 Hour i get here in Germany Bandwith Problems with MS Flightsimulator 2024. Maybe still not enough Servers in European Region who can handle the Players in the Evening ?

And that’s my problem too, I can only play the game at this time after work and it not working at all at this time in Europe.

[NothingButTheBlues]

You guys will be able to play without bandwith issues if you reinstall the game and change from Telekom DNS to something else. Don't come to false conclusions just because it seems to work when player count is lower. I am also on a Telekom connection and I fixed it as described. From always low bandwith to never again.

[Onkel_Bob]

Originally posted by NothingButTheBlues:

You guys will be able to play without bandwith issues if you reinstall the game and change from Telekom DNS to something else. Don't come to false conclusions just because it seems to work when player count is lower. I am also on a Telekom connection and I fixed it as described. From always low bandwith to never again.

i changed the DNS to google DNS as described , also re-installed the game. But that did not help.

[pudel]

Originally posted by Onkel_Bob:

Originally posted by NothingButTheBlues:

You guys will be able to play without bandwith issues if you reinstall the game and change from Telekom DNS to something else. Don't come to false conclusions just because it seems to work when player count is lower. I am also on a Telekom connection and I fixed it as described. From always low bandwith to never again.

i changed the DNS to google DNS as described , also re-installed the game. But that did not help.

Change it to cloudfare (directly in the router) as per following description:

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/low-bandwidth-issues-with-telekom-germany-only/676048/99

I know at least two guys for whom thats the only way to make the game work normal.

[MrViper90]

Just want to add that I also have right now in germany (20:53 local time) the "Bandwith low" warning message and flight does not load. Today my DSL connection was upgraded from 100 to 200 MBit. Yesterday I could fly, but at earlier time, no chance now. Maybe too many german player now online for the given bandwith in germany.
Hope this is looked into soon for all regions.

[pudel]

Originally posted by MrViper90:

Just want to add that I also have right now in germany (20:53 local time) the "Bandwith low" warning message and flight does not load. Today my DSL connection was upgraded from 100 to 200 MBit. Yesterday I could fly, but at earlier time, no chance now. Maybe too many german player now online for the given bandwith in germany.
Hope this is looked into soon for all regions.

For me the game works fine right now (germany). No bandwidth issues ever again since the first three days after release. But I am also not with that juice shop called Telekom (and never will be).

[Jan4fun]

Originally posted by MrViper90:

Just want to add that I also have right now in germany (20:53 local time) the "Bandwith low" warning message and flight does not load. Today my DSL connection was upgraded from 100 to 200 MBit. Yesterday I could fly, but at earlier time, no chance now. Maybe too many german player now online for the given bandwith in germany.
Hope this is looked into soon for all regions.

Same here. Deutsche Telekom 500Mbit, but in the evening "Bandwith low" warning message and flight will load, but it takes up to 10 minutes. horrible

[Zyrohex]

I'm on a Fiber connection with 800MBPS down and getting the same bandwidth low errors - flight takes forever to load in. If I connect to a VPN that's in a different state (Chicago IL) I no longer get the errors, so that tells me its a capacity issue for whatever region my normal connection is connecting too.

[7sascha7]

It was probably the stupidest idea to release the game as a network-based game. I could imagine that it would have worked, but if I can't even open the program and access my profile, it's really sad what Microsoft was thinking. Loading times have always been very long for Microsoft applications, but bringing a game onto the market that is only playable when a fraction of the players are online is just not acceptable. It's a shame about the money I invested. I really expected more from it.

[ждун]

Originally posted by Eleven:

i have Telekom too, normaly no Problems, just in the early Evening Hours between 17.00-21.00 Hour i get here in Germany Bandwith Problems with MS Flightsimulator 2024. Maybe still not enough Servers in European Region who can handle the Players in the Evening ?

I doubt that. Its likely local wireless issue. To many devices watching youtube in the house?
Also interferences with neightbours wireless networks or devices such as baby phones could be causing interferences. You should measure the bandwidth with a speedtest. If the bandwidth is unstable during the evening it might be interferences. You can verify by connecting with a CAT5 network cable to the router and check if it fixes it. If it does it is definetelly wireless network problem. You could try switching router to different mode. F.e. if its running 5G switching to 2G or vice versa. Or using a wireless repeater could help as it makes the signal stronger.

[ждун]

Originally posted by 7sascha7:

It was probably the stupidest idea to release the game as a network-based game. I could imagine that it would have worked, but if I can't even open the program and access my profile, it's really sad what Microsoft was thinking.

They were probably thinking that expecting people to have 1.5 Terrabytes available on their M2 drives in their gaming machines and expect them to wait for a week to download it completely would be something difficult to sell.

[ждун]

Originally posted by Zyrohex:

I'm on a Fiber connection with 800MBPS down and getting the same bandwidth low errors - flight takes forever to load in. If I connect to a VPN that's in a different state (Chicago IL) I no longer get the errors, so that tells me its a capacity issue for whatever region my normal connection is connecting too.

Well you must not speculate, measure your bandwidth outside of the sim. I am afraid you would be surprised how much less bandwidth you get than what you actually expect it to be. You would not notice that usually from whatching youtube, surfing the web or playing other games that don't need a lot of bandwidth.

Also try connecting with a cable. I have this problems only with wireless, when I connect with cable never seen this problem. Its often issues with unstable local wireless networks. Local wireless networks may have interferences and become unstable. Sometimes you measure full speed, next minute it goes down to less then 1%.