I put together a package of monitors, stress testers, and test flights to determine if there really is a problem with lost connections or streaming errors/failures - ALL now done under SU7

PC/Stream/Win 10 - Nothing running on PC except monitors and sim - NO security or firewall active - Comcast 500 Mbs fiber connection. Ran a continuous load against the internet and measured an Average/Minimum Download speed of 440Mbs/390 Mbs.   The Upload speed was always within 5% of 24Mbs and the Average/Maximum Ping was 19/24ms.

Ran a continuous load against the internet AND ran flightsim.exe while monitoring thruput/latency/packet loss

Five test flights with nothing in the community folder while using the C172/G1000 exactly as delivered by Asobo

In five flights, each lasting 10-minutes:

Ten occurrences of "Lost Connection" that did not result in BING Graphics being turned off - The minimum Download speed was 175 Mbs at the time of the message and the maximum was 420 Mbs at the time of the message

Ten occurrences of "Lost Connection" that did not result in BING Graphics being turned off - The minimum Download speed was 175 Mbs at the time of the message and the maximum was 420 Mbs at the time of the message

Six occurrences of "Lost Connection" or "Data Streaming Error" that DID result in BING Graphics being turned OFF - The minimum Download speed was 165 Mbs at the time of the message and the maximum was 410 Mbs at the time of the message

There were 0 (zero) lost packets during any of the flights and the maximum/average latency was 30ms and 20ms.  At no time during any of the test flights did the Upload speed (my PC to server) deviated from the no load average of 24 Mbs.  Even when flightsim.exe was telling me there was a lost connection - I was uploading at >24Mbs. 

It appears that my internet connection and data thruput rate is pretty good but flightsim.exe is finding a reason to generate an error and turn off Bing Graphics.  The problem is so pervasive at times that I cannot fly more than 60-seconds without the Bing Graphics being turned off. 

This problem began under SU5, got worse under SU6, and is now making it almost impossible to fly under SU7.

I also get the "low bandwidth" message while the sim is loading despite the internet load testing never showing less than 300 Mbs download speed during the sim loading. 

I run ProcMon while the sim is running and can find absolutely NO network errors or oddities, which might explain the error messages.  I look for long TCP response times and find none.  

What the heck do I do next?

 

Edited November 19, 20214 yr by TacomaSailor
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Server issue.  I receive this error too from time to time.  150-180 Mbps here