My broadband provider has offered me a switch to full fibre from 45 mbs to 150 mbs at no extra cost, which I have accepted.  Can anyone tell me what typical speeds the MS servers stream at and will I notice any significant improvement in scenery loading times?

Hopefully, future world and sim updates will download a lot faster assuming the speeds from the servers exceed mine (accepting that there are always likely to be slowdowns just after any update lands).

What experiences have you all had following broadband upgrades?

4 minutes ago, cianpars said:

Can anyone tell me what typical speeds the MS servers stream

no idea about the actual streaming of scenery/BING data when flying but when updating MSFS I see between 90 to 100 mb download speed (depending on file size) with my 250mb line. 

Not sure, there have been guys reporting better scenery loading after upgrading their broadbands, but unsure whether this may be wishful thinking or if it is fact. I would have thought that it can only improve things, I mean, if scenery is being loaded procedurally across the internet then it stands to reason, I would have thought, that the faster your internet the faster the scenery loads. Unless of course the data is being streamed at a slower speed than your internet speed. In the end, having a faster internet speed is good anyway. Even if you see no benefit in game, it would still mean you can download and install scenery three times faster! (or should that be four times faster?) 

Edited January 27, 20233 yr by Rockliffe

53 minutes ago, DAD said:

no idea about the actual streaming of scenery/BING data when flying but when updating MSFS I see between 90 to 100 mb download speed (depending on file size) with my 250mb line. 

Very useful info. thanks.  I'm looking forward to checking it out when the installation is complete.

I think I remember reading 50mbps is the minimum, I have just moved and my speed has dropped from 200mbps to 45mbps and I have not noticed any difference in either MSFS or Star Citizen performance.

43 minutes ago, SierraHotel said:

I remember reading 50mbps is the minimum,

Minimum are 5 Mbit/s, Ideal are 50 Mbit/s.

 

I just upgraded to full Fibre (1.5Gbps Down / 940Mbps Up) and to be honest I have not noticed any significant difference. My flightsim PC is connected to a GB Switch and I am getting full speed, it does have a 2.5Gbps network card so I could run a new Cat6 cable directly but I very much doubt it will do much. My old cable service (300Mbps Down / 15Mbps Up) was getting really unreliable and I was experiencing lot's of outages. I haven't had a lot of time to test MSFS with the new service but will do over the coming weeks. 

@cianpars You have moved from double to triple digit speed and you will definitely see faster download times. You may see some improvement on the streaming end when running the sim. At 1Gig download speed in our house, I still get the rare connection lost message, which will last less than 5 seconds and then it re-connects. Most slowness and interruption issues in my opinion are at the source end beyond our control. 

6 hours ago, polosim said:

Minimum are 5 Mbit/s, Ideal are 50 Mbit/s.

 

Thank you, I knew there was a 50 in there somewhere 😉

During MSFS updates the speed is normally up to 160/Mbps on my 1GB fibre. I have no data during flying.

But it all depends on your location and who else in your household is using the internet, of course.

To me, the greatest advantage of a fast internet fiber connection is when it comes to update the sim (WU's mainly, that are "heavy"), but that will depend on how much broadband from the MS servers are available to us.

What I've found is that playing the game with a download speed above 100 Mbps is good enough. By the way, I never use wi-fi, but a direct ethernet cable connection from the computer to the router.

12 minutes ago, edpatino said:

What I've found is that playing the game with a download speed above 100 Mbps is good enough. By the way, I never use wi-fi, but a direct ethernet cable connection from the computer to the router.

Yes, you will definitely gain some speed with a direct link versus wifi. With a 1 Gig service to our house, direct link speed is 900+ megs versus 700-800 megs with wifi. Not a significant difference for performance in most applications, but that extra speed with a direct link saves time with large download files.

I've went from 500mbps to 50mgps, (had to cut down on internet/cable cost, I was paying way too much) and to be honest, I haven't had any issues with bandwidth even while my wife is streaming a movie and me flying. So, as far I'm concerned  I don't really need more than 50mbps.

I used to have gigabit broadband and noticed that the fastest downloads were only up to 500 mbps at best from Microsoft/Xbox/Sony PSN etc. I took a big step back to 200 mbps because it was an excellent deal and found it to be acceptable. I have just however renegotiated and stepped up to 350 mbps when that excellent price doubled. I'm happy with that. I do intend to return to gigabit one day as I did go to the trouble of installing CAT8 and 2.5Gb switch to my man cave. 

Click to display. OOKLA will display the speed that your internet service is providing through to you at given time. 

https://www.speedtest.net/

Your online modem webpage gate can set a limit on your speed. In my case, Comcast internet announced a  free upgrade from 100 mBps to 200 mBps but my speeds stayed the same in OOKLA, there was no change, no improvement at all.

So I went to this URL below and drilled down through the menu and checked the speed limit and sure enough the limit had been set to 100. I killed that limiter and then started getting about 190 mBps, which was the improved speed that Comcast had promised.

http://192.168.0.1/

(My modem uses  192.168.0.1 for the gate.  Yours will be similar, and is shown on a tag on the bottom of your modem or gateway box).

EDIT:  I originally said 'router', I meant modem of course.

Edited January 29, 20233 yr by Fielder