According to the latest information, Virgin Media says it recorded the “biggest download day on record” on the same day as the latest Call of Duty update with the average household consuming 20.77GB worth of data over a 24 hour period on 25 February.
Call of Duty: Warzone is known in the industry for its huge download sizes, and the update in question clocked in at up to 26.5 GB for some users.
It said the surge it saw, driven by both the Call of Duty patch and the live streaming of four European football games, hit a peak network traffic of 20.86 Tbps (terabits per second). It had seen Christmas peaks of above 21 Tbps. Virgin, however, said its traffic record reflected a constant increase since the first pandemic lockdown.
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During January and February’s cold snap, usage was up 7.4GB a day compared with the same months last year, pre-lockdown.
But Virgin says downloads are up in the current lockdown compared with the first in 2020, with the average user downloading an extra 3.1GB a day.
Call of Duty: Warzone, the popular battle royale shooter, is a well-known contributor to such statistics. Its minimum requirements for PC gamers include having 175GB of free space – a huge chunk of most computers’ storage space.
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