My local provider announced recently that due to replacement of equipment, short outages are possible for a month during evening times (Duhhh!!!!). Yesterday, I encountered of these outages. Though it lasted 10 minutes, my entire flight was ruined during the approach. I tried to switch quickly to my phone internet, but then the sim hangs.

 

Is there any way to protect from these type of "outages"? 

You would need to pay for two separate ISPs and make sure they aren’t using the same communication lines … a good rollover would be land ISP (your current) and the Satelite ISP (DIrecTV or Starlink or similar).  Then you need a router that support multiple ISPs like this one:

https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-Integrated-Lightening-Protection-TL-R605/dp/B08QTXNWZ1?th=1

You might also be able to use your mobile device with this router if setup as an access point.

That’s a cheap option but there anre others from various vendors and models.

Edited April 21Apr 21 by SayAgain

10 hours ago, SayAgain said:

You might also be able to use your mobile device with this router if setup as an access point

I tried that during a network failure I had a couple of years ago. My ISP gave me 50 extra GB every 3 days. Sadly, not only MSFS ate them quickly, but also my phone was overheating after a quick flight. After seeing that there is no way to improve offline textures, I had to stay with earlier sims (P3D/FSX/FS9) during that outage.

Edited April 21Apr 21 by Luis Hernandez

Definitely would need an unlimited plan for MSFS.

The ideal situation would be to allow users to download everything they want and let us decide if we want to purchase more local storage.

 But given the imminent death of the PC (it’s real this time as AMD has followed the path of corruption also) and the push to “stream” everything and the concept of “never ownership” our flight simulation options for “offline” are narrow.  

I’d recommend XP12 as a backup over P3D/FSX/FS9 … who knows XP12 may eventually become my primary Sim if Asobo can’t or won’t fix the object culling issues (especially for aircraft landing gear) because of FPS hunters.  Latest Asobo dev event was disappointing with zero acknowledgement of culling issues since they are “by design”.

 

 

On 4/20/2026 at 8:11 AM, G-YMML1 said:

My local provider announced recently that due to replacement of equipment, short outages are possible for a month during evening times (Duhhh!!!!). Yesterday, I encountered of these outages. Though it lasted 10 minutes, my entire flight was ruined during the approach. I tried to switch quickly to my phone internet, but then the sim hangs.

 

Is there any way to protect from these type of "outages"? 

Not really. MSFS 2024 requires always on. It does recover from a brief outage, but multiple minutes? Don't think that will work. 

Options I see

1. Live with it. Just temporary

2. Switch to Xplane/2020/etc for a few weeks.

3. Get a dual WAN router, get another internet connection, set up failover .. this seems very excessive!