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If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. Still, if your ISP can set you up with IPv6, you could notice considerable improvements on your Xbox Series XS to downloads and overall speed. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. I go from 10-20 mbps to 150-200 after exiting my running game. Try closing out any games or apps that are running out restart your console. There a bug that causes the downloads to throttle down.
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The most common causes of this issue are: As described in this tweet, the "suspend my game" button keeps your game ready to be resumed/Quick Resumed while also unlocking enough horsepower from your Xbox to manage full-speed downloads.Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. Click on ‘Test network speed and statistics’. On the ‘General’ menu, click on ‘Network settings’. Scroll across to the ‘Profile & system’ section (which will be represented by your own profile picture) and then down to the ‘Settings’ option. With many games now reaching over 100GB in size and updates that can be nearly that large by themselves, it's a real problem but the Xbox team is close to addressing it. Press the Xbox button on your controller to pull up the 'Guide' sidebar.
Alternatively, if a game thats downloading appears in the guide list, you can select it and choose See full queue to jump to the same page.
From there, go to My games & apps, then choose See all > Manage > Queue. Xbox execs explained that the system managed resources to make sure multiplayer games have the bandwidth they need to operate, but the approach was still too aggressive in most cases. With another download running, hit the Xbox button on your controller to open the guide. Then the Xbox Series X introduced Quick Resume, which made it easier and faster to get back into games, but still had the same effect of sometimes slowing downloads. For years, gamers have complained that downloading slows to a crawl while games are suspended, and the only way to make them go anywhere close to the full speed possible was to manually close any suspended titles.
Xbox software beta testers in the Insider program may have a new button popping up in their UI while downloading games, apps and updates.