GTA 6 pre-loads set traffic records on UK broadband networks
On the day pre-loading opened, Virgin Media O2 recorded its highest traffic ever and YouFibre saw a slowdown in Yorkshire, both blaming GTA 6 downloads.
What changed
- The figures come from the internet providers themselves, not from Rockstar.
- Virgin Media O2: traffic rose 51.6% within the first hour of pre-loading, compared with the same time a week earlier.
- By 9 a.m. on November 10, data downloaded on its network was 73.3% higher than the week before.
- The operator's peak traffic beat its previous record, set during a Champions League semi-final, by 3.8%.
- Its daily data record, held since a Fortnite update on November 1, fell at 11:05 p.m. and ended the day 4% higher.
- YouFibre: one of its network gateways was overloaded, slowing downloads for some customers, mostly in Yorkshire.
- The provider rebalanced its traffic and said service was back to normal; no nationwide outage was reported.
- In Ireland, the INEX internet exchange handled 12.53 petabytes that day, against about 9.53 usually.
Sources
- techtimes.co.ukGuide
- gadgetreview.comGuide
- indiatvnews.comGuide