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Low cost UK broadband ISP TalkTalk<\/a> has informed ISPreview.co.uk that online video games are increasingly producing significant surges in internet data traffic on their network. Indeed they’re braced for another “massive spike<\/em>” tomorrow with the release of the Call of Duty Modern Warfare Season 2 update (v1.14).<\/p>\n

In today’s modern world, where an increasing number of video games can easily gobble over 100GB (GigaBytes) of storage space, even regular patches can often be multi-GigaBytes in size. Combine that with the tendency to start automatic updates when players sign-in (often all during peak periods in the afternoon) and it’s easy to see why big updates can suck up a lot of data capacity on modern broadband networks.<\/p>\n

For example, the previous Modern Warfare v1.13 “patch<\/em>” came in at 48GB on PCs, 13GB on PS4 and 18.4GB on Xbox One! Only last week TalkTalk<\/a> said that it observed one of the “highest data traffic spikes of the past 12 months<\/em>“, which followed the combined release of both the Apex Legends Season 4<\/strong> release and the Call of Duty<\/strong> update.<\/p>\n

Apparently the aforementioned spike was the first time that a traffic peak of this size has been driven by gaming alone on TalkTalk<\/a>’s network. In total the broadband ISP said they saw a spike of 5.43Tbps (Terabits per second)<\/strong> – for context, this beats the total traffic driven by two Premier League matches (‘Arsenal v Brighton & Hove Albion<\/em>‘ and ‘Sheffield v Newcastle<\/em>‘) matches on the same day back in December, at 5.22Tbps.<\/p>\n

Gary Steen, TalkTalk’s Technology MD, told ISPreview.co.uk:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“These data spikes are massive, and it\u2019s just the beginning for peak gaming season – with Fortnite Chapter 2, Drone Champions League and Pok\u00e9mon Mystery Dungeon released in the next month and many more on the way. But it\u2019s not just gaming causing these spikes. With the Microsoft patch update on its way, TalkTalk knows how important having strong, reliable internet is to its growing number of gaming customers \u2013 so they don\u2019t get any drop-offs, lagging or data caps mid-game \u2013 which they can feel sure of with TalkTalk\u2019s Unlimited Fibre Broadband.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The issue is by no means unique to TalkTalk and is something that all consumer facing broadband ISPs have to grapple with, which is not unlike the adaption that was needed when online video streaming began to truly explode via YouTube, Netflix, BBC<\/a> (iPlayer) and others some years back. However it’s rare that such ISPs provide us with such an insight into their network traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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