VPN really does help the download speed
Is it local ISP’s that do that in the area you live in? I see this quit often and while I just keep scrolling, I don’t understand why some have issues downloading and some don’t.
I bought a new PC this week, and was kind of surprised to find they still haven’t solved the download speeds issue in the last 18 months. Rather than wait 1-3 days for everything to download, I tried out a VPN as I saw suggested here and elsewhere, and it made the download 50x faster. I’m using NordVPN (Dallas server) if you’re curious about it.
What’s your actual region?
I’ve been preaching this here for a while and yea for some reason people like to downvote it lol. Glad to see others getting the same benefit. It also helps the load times and scenery loads.
Mine is crazy different. When I reinstalled onto a new drive, no VPN was going to take 18 hours, with VPN was 34 minutes
I can’t respond to the deleted thread and don’t know what was said by the other person but in response to your ISP throttling; I have a different theory. I don’t have nearly the connection speed you have and do not need to VPN and I’ve never experienced the dreaded slow downloads people report. My theory is because I have a business plan. I know for sure from tracing my traffic that the switch to business substantially reduced my hops (in physical distance and count) to azure servers because I use them for work. I used to have to hop all the way across the US and back. I have a feeling that’s a little on the ISP side and a little on MS side to manage work from home traffic. When you VPN you are connecting to business servers and potentially getting onto a lower usage Azure server while you are at it.
Glad it works for you!
This is still true as of September 2023. I just connect to a VPN somewhere else (region is Houston, TX) and I get a massive bump in my download speed.
To me, this looks like you just stopped and started the download. The number shown was just an average speed and by killing your VPN connection, surprise, the average speed started dropping because the connection totally died. Then when you reestablished the VPN connection, the download restarted and the average speed went back up.
Maybe you’re right! In either case, it’s something they really should have figured out by now. So bizarre to only use 1-2% of my bandwidth to download something so massive. And regardless of the cause, it’s only this program and many people have this problem.
It is so weird why does it do this? Supposedly vpn are suppose to be slower
As soons as I turn on my VPN, the sim will crash with “Please insert the game disc”. EDIT: The game also wont start when using VPN.
I’ve got Nord VPN and 1g internet. I’m going to give that a try! 
I have Xfinity for my internet. I read about them throttling connections. I pay $150 a month for Gigabit connection speed, but was still getting horrible lag and stutters in FS. I subscribed to NordVPN and my sim has smoothed out tremendously. I would drop Xfinity tomorrow if they didn’t have a monopoly in my area.
no shit sherlock… ALL your internet traffic being redirected via a 3rd party, will always be a choke point.
side note… I have had 2 in-store purchases fail after payment. Both via a VPN. For purchases… I would avoid the VPN. Then steam were a pain because they kept seeing it as a request for a refund of the whole sim, which somehow they rejected after 2000+hours of use lol
I would encounter a similar issue with my 40mbps copper connection (which would normally hit 35mbps outside of MSFS or when using a VPN). My provider upgraded my line to a 50mbps fibre connection and now I’m hitting around 50mbps with MSFS without the need for a VPN. I wonder if certain ISPs throttle certain traffic.
I have google fiber gigabit, and they claim that they don’t throttle. I’ve never experienced speeds like this with anything else (including torrents) so I think it’s an issue on the server end, but MS has been mum about it even though it’s a common issue.
Absolutely love the people here. You show a solution to an ongoing issue. Have video proof of it working, it’s been reported as a solution for well over a year, and you get downvoted.
Why? Who the fuck knows.
Salt Lake City on Google Fiber
Glad to hear this still works but sad to hear you still have to haha. Happy flying.
Please trust me when I say I’m more computer literate than that. Prior to downloading and turning on the VPN it plodded along at 4-8 Mbits for 4 hrs. Same speed the last 2 times I downloaded the program (both times it took close to 24 hrs.) You do make a good point that this presentation would have worked better in the opposite direction.