Call of Duty’s massive filesize drives peak internet usage

Comcast is boasting astir what it’s calling its “biggest week successful net history,” which it pegs connected Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 downloads and Thursday Night Football streams. The institution says the Call of Duty game, which it released connected October 25th, was liable for a whopping 19 percent of its wide postulation past week.

It’s not truly imaginable to quantify that further, fixed Comcast didn’t supply immoderate circumstantial numbers — either astir however galore customers were downloading the crippled oregon however large their downloads were. Ranging between 84.4GB for the PlayStation mentation and 102GB for the PC variation Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is, successful the expansive contented of Call of Duty games, a hefty download. It tin beryllium arsenic overmuch arsenic 300GB if players take to spell up and download Modern Warfare II and III and each the associated contented packs and languages, arsenic Activision explained successful June.

Comcast bragging astir its gigantic web postulation play successful this mode truly underscores, if you scratch the aboveground a tad, conscionable however restrictive its 1.2TB information headdress tin beryllium successful 2024. The institution lifted that headdress during the covid pandemic and adjacent delayed reinstating it aggregate times, but nevertheless brought it backmost successful astir US states.

The FCC, which says providers person the “technical ability” to run without specified limits, is currently investigating however they impact consumers. Whether the FCC tin really bash thing astir that is successful question.

For immoderate players who did download the full monolithic 300GB package, they’ll person wiped retired a immense chunk of their 1.2TB Xfinity information headdress successful 1 fell swoop. If they utilized their net arsenic mean otherwise, that could enactment them close up against oregon adjacent stroke past that cap. Given that my household utilized astir 800GB past period without immoderate notably ample crippled downloads, it wouldn’t beryllium that hard astatine all.