The first time I installed MSFS it took about 5 days. The second time, after my entire install simply disappeared, it was a little faster at 3 days (servers not as busy?).

Ten days ago my hard drive failed and I've been forced into rebuilding my machine with a new drive. Priority One: get Windows installed, activated and updated. Done. Priority Two (should be work stuff, right?): install MSFS. 😅. It's been running for two hours and managed to install 344 MB. In TWO hours. I ran a speed check (with MSFS installed paused): network is fine and speed is where it should be.

Microsoft servers?

At this rate I should be able to fly again just before Christmas. 🙈🙉🙊

I am located in Australia (poor internet speeds) and am able to download at about 5MB/s in MFS. Clearly you're getting substantially less than that. I have had instances in the past where my download would be substantially slower and the only thing I could do was ALT+F4 and reopen the application. It would work after a couple of tries.

I should mention though that I have not needed to employ that 'workaround' for more than a year and every download has been fine as of late.

I’m in Tokyo so I won’t flex by telling you numbers but suffice to say I have no problems downloading / streaming from servers (when they’re up…).

Do you use ethernet? I had the problem before when using wifi connection. Now I get average of 100MB/s download from the MS servers when updating (I have a 1GB fiber connection). So if you have a good connection, something else is throttling your speed.... it is not the MS servers in my experience (unless they are down).

1 hour ago, suncoastflyer said:

I am located in Australia (poor internet speeds) and am able to download at about 5MB/s in MFS. Clearly you're getting substantially less than that. I have had instances in the past where my download would be substantially slower and the only thing I could do was ALT+F4 and reopen the application. It would work after a couple of tries.

I should mention though that I have not needed to employ that 'workaround' for more than a year and every download has been fine as of late.

I'll try that for sure. 

10 minutes ago, Silicus said:

Do you use ethernet? I had the problem before when using wifi connection. Now I get average of 100MB/s download from the MS servers when updating (I have a 1GB fiber connection). So if you have a good connection, something else is throttling your speed.... it is not the MS servers in my experience (unless they are down).

My line is ADSL, and my connection between modem/router and PC is wi-fi. Yesterday I ran all the Windows updates, and while I could not see the download speeds it seemed to come down with normal speeds. I ran the speediest this morning specifically to check if the issue was between my PC and the modem. It's not; this can only logically be a server-side bottleneck as everything, and every other computer on the same network has no connection issues. 

Try using a VPN to allow you to connect to a different server.  I live in Southeast US and the default server is trash...it always hangs during downloads.  I connected with a VPN and it gave me an IP address in the northeast and everything downloaded and installed without a hitch.