For the first few weeks of the realm being created the connection was stable and I was able to remain connected for hours at a time. As of around 9/05/2020 I routinely get the following error within 1-2 minutes of connecting to the realm "Internal Exception: java.io.IOException: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host" rendering it essentially unplayable. my internet connection is stable and have no connection issues to other online games and other minecraft servers (unsure about other realms, I'm only in the one realm) so looks to be an issue with the connection to the realm specifically.
Realm information can be provided if it's not accessible via my account name.
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Thank you for your report!
We're actually already tracking this issue at REALMS-3593, so I will resolve and link this ticket as a duplicate.
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