We couldn't help but notice over the past few days that lots of Xbox fans have been noticing slow download speeds on Xbox Live. These comments have been coming in from all over the web, and while they're always present to a degree, there's been a notable rise in the quantity of them recently.
In particular, a fair few people took to the net (and especially Reddit and Twitter) to highlight that their downloads were slow yesterday, Wednesday April 8th, which just so happened to coincide with the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: Warzone's in-demand Season 3 patch.
We've been seeing reports on slow downloads and server outages for some time, however, going back a couple of weeks. And ultimately, it's no surprise - Microsoft noted back in late March that the Xbox team was "actively monitoring performance and usage trends" and "optimizing the service", and while it didn't address limiting download speeds specifically, we pretty much assumed it to be the case.
So, let's throw it over to the Pure Xbox community — have you noticed any changes in Xbox Live download speeds recently, or have you been mostly unaffected? Let us know in the poll and comments below.
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On a personal note, I'm just grateful for the work the Xbox team is doing to keep these servers running as optimally as possible. I'm sure they're being stress-tested like never before right now.
I have had to restart my Xbox One a few times when watching YouTube or Disney+ cause they just stopped working and froze. Everything else in my house that used internet was working just fine though.
It took me 4 hours to download 10 gb game.
Actually my download speeds have been faster than usual. Not sure why. Journey to the savage planet took like 10 minutes.
Yes they are painfully slow for me.
I live in the middle of nowhere, my DL speeds are always slow
Can't really say anything useful about it, seeing as I haven't been downloading anything these last couple of days, so maybe that's just lucky for me, then.
On the other hand: I usually download games automatically, when the console is switched off, so I hardly ever notice how long it takes (or doesn't take) anyway...
I usually leave any games im downloading until night time. Even if it's a very big game by the time I get to play it the following evening it's downloaded.
All I have noticed is that when I download to my internal drive, I get around 180 Mbps on average. When I download to my external drive, I get around 360 Mbps on average.
I have an Xbox One X.
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