Xbox Download Speeds May Receive A Boost As Part Of New Update

When does the updated dashboard get released? Thought it had already been released to the masses

I'd say that downloads and installation times are 'OK', Fine I suppose considering I have other platforms to compare against, but I do feel that it takes too long.

To download, install and update a game, ensuring its 'fully' installed, can take several hours. Part of the reason I feel compelled to use 'Cloud' on my Series X despite the low res and compression compromising PQ, extra lag/latency too is because it takes too long to Download. Why wait for an hour or more to start playing when I can jump in and play for that hour, decide if its worth downloading and if I decide it is, leave it until I can download overnight.

I have a 'decent' Internet connection, Hardwired to my Xbox with about 70-75Mbps download and 20Mbps upload speeds so its not slow and it's only me on it. I don't believe that download speeds are being 'limited' by my Internet speed, its more down to the System being the limiting factor. Therefore any improvement is welcome but its 'fine' compared to others that also seem to take 'longer' than expected...

I'm still only getting approx 800mbps , zero improvement for me

Edit; assassin's creed Valhalla's hit 896 so I guess there is a improvement

My download speeds have mostly matched the download speeds of my Fios internet.

When I had Gigabit, I rarely got the max, but I was averaging about 650 Mb/sec.

I have downgraded recently to 300 Mb/sec and I get about 275 Mb/s on average.

The download speeds are incredible! Granted I have gotten used to the switch download speed which is abysmally bad.

Compared to my PS5, download speeds on my Series X are generally lightning fast. Downloading games on PS5 is painfully slow.

@FraserG ah cheers. I really thought that I saw it had been released but I guess it was just for the insiders.

I’m really happy with the current state of download speeds. They seem to be a bit faster on the Series X compared to the PS5 but I won’t say no to even faster speeds.

I came from playstation 5 to xbox sx since 1 year after this generation of console launch, and that was negative aspect of Microsoft console... the dowload. I was suprise when I get to Microsoft environment, how slow the download speed and dowload management sucks compare to playstation environment. And the fact that you need to put your game on resume state to get a faster dowload ... while on playstation during a game play I had more that a 1Gb/s while playing.... but, even with this inconvinience, my ps5 is still collecting dust since i'm on xbox !

I think this is a total case by case experience. Many factors play into this, wifi/hardwired, what kind of ethernet cable using, if your on wifi 2.4 or 5ghz channel, internet speed, etc. I been on At&t fiber gigabit plan and am having absolutely no issues with speed, consistently at or above 900mbps. Also something most people don't take into consideration is the equipment they are using. Any ISP router/modem is going to be pretty much the cheapest stuff they are able to get by with. I've always used my own modems and routers and you'd be surprised the performance upgrade you recieve. Being able to control bandwidth to certain devices when you have multiple devices going at a certain time is a huge time saver when downloading the larger games we are accustomed to seeing now days.

On the PS4 I always had a problem with this, but not on the series X, so quite happy as is ATM.

I have 1Gbit internet at home and max out at around 750Mbit. That's more than enough for me. And it should be said that I have measured my internet speed to a few Mbit north of 1Gbit.

I still support and only want physical media, period. Of course, will be trolled, mocked, and laughed at for that comment. But I do stand by it.

Can they speed it up on PC where its almost comically slow?

The download speeds are poor, often 45-150mb/s then eventually after time maybe jumping to 450, while I have gigabit available. PS5 is way faster on the downloads. Switch is waaay slower.

But I'm more interested in this one: "Fixes to address remote features being disabled unexpectedly."

Does this mean they're finally fixing remote play randomly going into a state it's unable to actually start the machine and connect until I physically go start the machine? That's been a bane for over a year!

900gbit here, i get on xbox 600-800 mbit speed

I usually hit around 5-600 from my 600 virgin connection

@NEStalgia @somnambulance @LoquaciousB Sorry to include all of you on one post. But i am Hardwired on Xbox Series X and PS5, i have AT&T fiber gigabyte. My lowest reading on Xbox has been 650mbps and best has been 1016mbps. With around 500mbps on the upload. On PS5 my best has been around 865 and lowest 650ish with an upload speed of 21-25mbps. So it must be regional is the only thing i can gather, and that is a guess by the way, as i am not sure. One thing i can say is the switch is slow even on fiber, tho the games are so much smaller i don’t find it as bad. I did download Diablo 4 on Xbox and it was around 76GB and i downloaded it in 13 mins. Which i thought was good. I am interested in seeing if the update does anything as by the looks of your comments the speed is very much all over the place and not a consistent answer.

@GuyinPA75 i have been 100% digital for well over 10 years, and while i have no use for physical media, as i have fiber internet at 1000mbps. I am glad it’s still around for those that want or need it. I don’t want it to go away for people like you, there is no reason it should, it can coexist with digital. At least until stores and publishers see it as non profitable. Maybe if it becomes too much of a hit for them i could see that being an issue. But anyone that mocks and makes fun of people that prefer physical is just trying to make it seem inferior to digital when in fact it is just different and both have Pro’s and Con’s. Keep collecting buddy. Do it the way you get the most enjoyment 😊

@BobCoffee same i get blazing speed on the console the pc downloads from xbox are miserable though.

@carlos82 ya mine downloads at most 30 mbps for the pc. it took 20 plus hours to download ark maybe more.

@somnambulance wow that is odd, for me almost the same situation i am an hour from the next major city and we just got fiber like 2 months ago. Before that i had 400mbps and the same thing, my PS5 would get 330 on the high 240 on the low and my Xbox would get 425 max to 285 low. So it must be location or something that is over my head in networking and servers. Again i am taking guesses here as i don’t have any knowledge to speak of. Ping is what really matters for online play, but as far as downloading from the store, my Series X is just a tad, maybe 15-20% faster than PS5. But what has me really clueless is why there is a huge difference in upload speeds in favor of Xbox. Those aren’t close. Xbox is 550 or more consistently, i have yet to break 50 on PS5.

@Green-Bandit Yeah I'm thinking it's regional or time of day. Also on gigabit fiber. But xb won't saturate the line worth anything while PS4 will. Switch is like isdn at best. It's the sd write speed, that's just as fast as it goes. I can download hfw in 10 minutes, Forza horizon 5 in 15-20. Tears of the kingdom is like 42 😂

I'd guess the store servers are all west coast and up here in the northeast were all stuffed on speed that way. I remember playing Diablo 2 on the Pacific server in the day and it was hellish and not in the way it was meant to be lol. Splatoon, same thing. Or worse, European servers where the fastest route to eu is under the ocean to Asia and back up.

One thing I noticed right away when I got my Series X back in December 2021 is how much quicker it downloads and installs games and DLC than my Xbox One ever did. If MS manages to improve this, that'd be great, but even now the experience has been so much better with this console that my split on purchases of multiplat games on Series X and PS5 is about even, where as last gen I bought all 'AAA' multiplats on PS4 with the exception of a few Ubisoft releases.

In my own personal experiences I have found that my Xbox series S downloads games much, MUCH faster than my PS5. I have gig speed fiber optic internet with a WiFi 6 router & both my Xbox series S and my PS5 are hardwired with cat 7 cables. When testing network speeds my series S on average gets about 960Mbs download with 200Mbs upload. When downloading games that speed usually shows at 667Mbs but it fluctuates sometimes faster and sometimes a little slower.

The same connection using the same internet with the same router & cables on my PS5 however results in a much different picture. When testing the speeds on my PS5 I get on average about 807Mbs download & 55Mbs upload which is still plenty fast but slower than the Xbox. When it comes to downloading games the difference is magnificent, the PS5 only shows about 50Mbs when downloading a game which is horrendous in comparison to the Xbox series S which literally shows 10 times the speed when downloading games. Just very weird and I was wondering if anyone else has noticed these things?

@GuyinPA75 Me to but physical is just going away 😭

@NEStalgia that makes sense. I for sure get better speeds on my Series X than PS5. But both download games really fast and since me and my wife work from home, we really enjoy having the faster speeds and the whole house covered. The internet even goes into the yard, garage and front of the house. We are really happy with it. Would like to see if these changes Xbox has in mind works well for gamers. Nintendo needs to make Switch 2 a little better, they won’t, but i wish they would.

@somnambulance PS4 were faster than Xbox One for me as well. Now it switched back to Series X over PS5. Strange. Yeah i think the update could help some people and hope it does. Xcloud is only going to get better and better and Xbox knows they are in the drivers seat ahead of most in that area in infrastructure. It’s only going to be a strength for them going forward, no matter how much “gamers” online want to make fun of it or so they don’t care. Glad to hear you enjoy it.

@Green-Bandit i do wonder what switch 2 does for storage. They can't pack ssds like series/5. They can put built in flash that'll be fast but such low capacity. If they stick with sd they're stuck in 2017 io speed for another 7 years and there goes third party again.. If they go for proprietary flash like the series Seagate drives that'll be crazy expensive. Nintendo does have a conundrum there.

500MB Fibre connection here Series X usually hits 61.2-63.5 MB/s which is actually about 514 Mbps. Pretty much the same as I get from Steam on the Desktop.
Can't complain. There was a time when most of these services couldn't make use of an entire 250MB, let alone 500MB.
I'll be interested to see whether I get a GB of throughput when the Gigabit service upgrade is installed to the building later this year.

@NEStalgia good point. I am not sure what they will do there either. But they need to keep price down as Nintendo loves to not only profit from hardware sales but be in that family range of pricing. They could make a regular and pro version tho and test the waters if some users would like to spend extra on a more premium model. As i and many others would.

@Green-Bandit Nintendo doesn't like splitting their development or customer base. "Regular" vs "Pro" versions doesn't fit their philosophy. They don't sell tech for the sake of tech, they sell tech that serves their games, and dividing the experience to be better and worse across different hardware isn't how they do things, they'd rather keep everything at the minimum than cater to a premium market at the cost of making their mainstream experience look bad. Makes sense, everybody gets the same ToTk, even if a pro version could have looked and performed better. Everyone that plays it gets the same experience as everyone else. That's what consoles used to be about before the consoles became PCs.

@NEStalgia this is true, that is the Nintendo way, and in some cases i respect that, even tho i would gladly give extra money for better made hardware and software. I think the Switch 2 will be enough in the beginning to feel like a big step forward and it will slowly catch up to itself that it is again under powered. But we are reaching an age in tech where at some point their games and choices start to look very good and it won’t mean as much to me. I am just a hardcore person for HDR and high res to my eyes. I bash everything from TV to movies and games when they are not 4K and HDR. I rip MS’s ui for not being in HDR, i have two LG oled’s, so i rip sports or anything else when it’s in 1080P. Nintendo i give a decent pass to when i can, but i sure would love to see a smoother experience on the eyes. I really rip my work laptop they gave me that only put’s out 1080P, as i would gladly pay out of pocket to have 4K work screens. I crunch numbers all day, so i would love to have a higher res on screen for excel and what not. But yes i think you are right to say, Nintendo won’t spilt the hardware in two classes.

The router is very important, get an Asus gaming router if necessary and use a wired connection if possible.

@somnambulance If Xbox Cloud is perfect, your ping is excellent, so why do you get slower download speeds on Xbox than on PS? No idea but I wouldn't say that the download speed is "awful" if it's 200Mbps, considering that some people have a connection slower than 20Mbps. Besides, it's much more important to have excellent ping than anything else, for any gamer. Still, it's unusual that the PS5 is faster when it's usually slower than Series X. Even Series S is faster than PS5 downloading. Weird. Let us know if the update helps. Have you a wired connection?

I have 1Gbps, the service provider guarantees 80% and Series X downloads at full speed (over 800Mbps in my case), like most users here.

@somnambulance My only ideas are to reset the console (in the settings menu) just in case and to turn off other WiFi consoles and devices while downloading a huge game. If nothing works, wait for this update to hopefully fix your issue.

The new alpha skip ahead has gone one further
(Xbox Series X|S consoles) We have made optimizations to content installation and updating to enable faster download speeds while games are running.

@LoquaciousB I've noticed the same issue, my Xbox series can download multiple games while my PS5 downloads just one game in the same amount of time lol