Perhaps this is old news but I think I've made some progress on this.

I started to get this message every time I used the sim in the last couple of weeks on my 300mbps connection and it was accompanied by blurry textures and no tress etc. I've had the flu for the last week or so I forgot about it but today I sat down to do some flying and the problem persisted so I've had to deal with it and deal with it I did. I don't believe in coincidences so I made a mental list of other thing that happened around the same time this start and tried to determine causation or merely correlation. The list was SU13 and ISP contract renewal which was accompanied by remote modem reset. I was confident this remote modem reset was the culprit and once I started investigating it went from being a glitch to being a sinister plot by my ISP to not give me what I was paying for! So I got in touch with my ISP tech support and explained to them that I was using MSFS and ever since they remotely reset the modem I was getting this message that my bandwidth was too low. So they trouble shot it and they said that everything was working as it should be. I tried MSFS again but the problem persisted. I had also read that this issue had been reported after Sim updates. All I did in this regard was reset the game in the Xbox app. Still the problem persisted. In entertained the idea of buying a VPN to hide my usage from the ISP but then it struck me that I should try MSFS2020 Map Enhancer to see if the ISP could detect that method for data streaming and throttle it too. So I ran Map Enhancer using the Bing latest options and Voilà everything is now working fine! So my immediate though was those thieves. They are depriving me of what I've paid for. I figured the ISP could not detect Map Enhancer and therefore where not throttling the data. 

However, I did then exit the sim and restart it without Map Enhancer running and everything was still working properly so I cannot say for sure the last time I used map Enhancer was not around the same time the problem began in the first place, so its possible that Map Enhancer messed up some data port in the system. I don't know. I don't care. The problem is gone. If you have this problem try running Map Enhancer and see what happens.

Edited October 19, 20232 yr by FBW737

I've had issues like this also but would reset my hosts.ini by removing the entries made by the map enhancer and things would work again.  

So it would appear that the Map Enhancer is the culprit then. This is a common issue and simmers have pulled their hair out over it and even purchased VPNs because they suspected there ISP of covertly throttling bandwidth on MSFS. I know I did.

Honestly,  I think the bing maps are just fine.  

I hate to say this ... but I think you may have the wrong end of the stick!

I did a lot of research on this problem a fair few months ago - and the most convincing (and very technical) explanation was that the MS servers are often to blame. Basically, it appears they do not negotiate packets (or acknowledgements) correctly - especially when overloaded. Improving your ISP throughput can often make this *worse* - and many people found that (counter-intuitively) manually throttling your Internet speed helped - possibly because the MS servers don't need to renegotiate quite as many lost packets.

I think the Map Enhancer helps with this problem as it accesses the map servers directly - especially if you use Google or Apple servers ... but that's my guess. I don't think it's because your ISP is throttling MSFS but not the Enhancer. If you use any bandwidth throughput utility, then you should be able to test this.

I've been using the Enhancer (paid) for a long time now - and very rarely get these bandwidth errors. Pre Enhancer, I used to get them annoyingly frequently.

I get this message sometimes. I don't have 'map enhancer', to be honest I have never heard of it.🙂

Sometimes I get this message on going to the world map but it goes away. Occasionally it pops up during flight but does not seem to affect anything. 

My speed & bandwidth in  Australia is quire low compared to most of the world as other Australian' probable know.

 

Never got to grips with this one because it is so intermittent.  I've also suspected MS servers and ISP throttling and additionally tried a good (paid) VPN.  Connecting the VPN to Australia is always really slow BTW.

Often a router reset has done the trick, though not always.

Sometimes using google via the enhancer has worked, but again, sometimes not.

As far as I know, MS have never really commented on this or given ust their input or thoughts, which might be helpful.

I do have 150 MB bandwidth on my ISP.

Never used the Map Enhancer and always the default Bing maps.

Had intermittent issues with the MSFS messages of low bandwidth in the past, about one year ago, but these were due to may previous slow internet. Now at 500 Mbps fiber, and always connected directly via ethernet to my router, those message rarely appear, even with my wife using the internet via wi-fi for domestic purposes while I'm flying.

I don't think the issue has anything to do with the Enhancer being used or not. 

Edited October 20, 20232 yr by edpatino

I've seen it happen live on stream for some of the big content creators, I'd doubt it has anything to do with bandwidth, more than likely an Asobo/MSFS server issue.

It's happened intermittantly for me but never seems to cause any issues mid flight.

Im am getting this connection error thing without those Map tools. Its a new thing for me.

Michael Moe

 

My bet..  MS server overload.

Yesterday I got the Insert Game Disk message..

Same thing.

Edited October 20, 20232 yr by Bert Pieke

Fair enough, I, out of nowhere, had a malignant manifestation of the low bandwidth issue for 2 weeks. Every single time I started a flight in the sim I immediately go the red low bandwidth, you are offline message with the sim image degradation equivalent to vanilla FS2000 levels. Nothing I tried fixed it until I started Map Enhancer and flew with that it enabled. The sim also worked correctly on subsequent flights with Map enhancer not running.  If that helps anyone with this problem. Great!

I usually get those issues on Friday afternoon/evenings, so yea Bert is on to something here.

I got this message twice since the sim was released. The first one was about 6 months ago and I called my ISP and they said they were doing some maintenance and it would be fixed in 30 minutes, After 20 minutes I stopped getting the message and didn't get it again until around 2 weeks ago, on a weekend, and I believe that one was due to server overload because lots of others were getting it too.