azfatboy
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I guess this is where mojang is tracking the issue, so I thought I would add my comments here as well. I am also experiencing intermittent but chronic failures to connect to my realm, as well as periodic disconnects (with associated loss of progress). For me, this started right after downgrading from realms plus to realms. I never had a single disconnect or failure to connect while on realms plus, but the problem started within a day of opening the new (non-plus) realm. The time frame that I first started seeing this was 26 or 27 SEPT.
Well, knock on wood, but I did not experience the problem yesterday. I joined my realm a few times yesterday throughout the day, and I was able to connect each time, and even better, did not get disconnected.
Frankly, I think that the problem started because they had realms on too "small" of virtual servers. A server straining for resources (memory, CPU cycles, or even network bandwidth) could by itself cause the symptoms that all of us have been seeing. Probably some bean counter saying they could make $.02 more per day if they put realms on slower servers. And just at a time when mojang is introducing some features that are a bit more resource intensive. Perhaps MS is slowly (quietly) migrating those servers back to what they were (at least), and hoping this problem just goes away...