LIVE Weather, cahnging servers

[wan2fly99 37]

Tried live weather here at CYYZ, Yoronto,canada

Got the Atis

Looked up the real Metar (weather) and it was not  really dead on.

Somebody had said that European servers are working great for Live weather retrieval.

How do I change to point to those servers

[MorrisMinor 47]

Just click on your name in top right of a menu screen (you can do it when flying for example after pressing 'Esc' ) and you'll see a drop down menu - default for server selection is automatic, but you can select from a list.

 

[wan2fly99 37]

Ok thanks very much found it

[RJC68 823]

8 minutes ago, wan2fly99 said:

Ok thanks very much found it

Did you find it was any different?

[JRBarrett 3,070]

The servers you can select in the UI (America East/West - Europe etc.) are only for the streaming scenery. The Live Weather comes from an entirely different set of servers. MSFS does not just connect to “a” server when it’s running - it typically connects to at least 7 different IP addresses when initializing, and maintains connections to at least 4 discrete IP addresses while running - (sometimes more).

The network activity of the flightsimulator.exe process can be easily monitored with any TCP/IP utility program like CurrPorts, or Microsoft’s own TCPView from sysinternals.

[wan2fly99 37]

OH  THAT WHY IT REALLY WASN'T ACCURATE, CLOSE THOUGHT