Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 downloads increase internet usage

Comcast is bragging about what it calls its “biggest week in Internet history,” which it links to Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 downloads and Thursday Night Football streams. The company says Call of Duty the game, which it released on October 25, was responsible for a whopping 19 percent of its total traffic last week.

It’s not really possible to quantify that further, as Comcast didn’t provide any specific numbers — either on how many customers downloaded the game or how large their downloads were. Right between 84.4 GB for the PlayStation version and 102 GB for the PC version Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is in the great tradition Call of Duty game, a big download. It can be as much as 300GB if players choose to go ahead and download Modern Warfare II and III and all the associated content packs and languages ​​that Activision explained in June.

Comcast bragging about its giant network traffic weekend like this really underscores, if you scratch the surface, just how restrictive its 1.2 TB data cap could be in 2024. The company lifted that cap during the covid pandemic and even delayed the reinstatement of it several times. times, but still brought it back in most US states.

The FCC, which says carriers have the “technical ability” to operate without such limits, is currently investigating how they affect consumers. Whether the FCC can actually do anything about it is open to question.

For all players who downloaded the entire massive 300GB package, they will have wiped out a large portion of their 1.2TB Xfinity data cap in one fell swoop. If they were otherwise using their internet as normal, it could set them right up against or even blow past that cap. Considering my family used nearly 800GB last month without any particularly large game downloads, it wouldn’t be that hard at all.