Xbox Series X download throttled?

MitchHall604 · Nov 11, 2021

I have Gig speed through Xfinity (1200 Mbps) download speed. Why does my Xbox series X only download games/apps at 200-400Mbps on a wired connection? The Xbox download speed test shows 1,000+Mbps and sometimes exceeds 1,200Mbps. But when actually downloading games it’s only at 200-400 Mbps. Sometimes it’ll get stuck downloading at less than 50Mbps!

Running Speedtest on an iPad on Wi-Fi shows ~600Mbps halfway across the room.

Is there any way to improve download speeds from the Microsoft store?

Pictures attached for reference. Thanks in advance!

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Eletricdrum

Hi, my name is Fernando and I am an independent consultant for Microsoft products.

Please check if the following ports are open in your router, if you have a secondary router both must have the same configuration:

Port 88 (UDP)

Port 3074 (UDP and TCP)

Port 53 (UDP and TCP)

Port 80 (TCP)

Port 500 (UDP)

Port 3544 (UDP)

Port 4500 (UDP)

Wano08

It's on the xbox series x! I have no idea how to set it to throttle axis 1! Thanks for replying to my question!

SwordofWhedon

Typically downloads are throttled based on current server loads. Also hard resetting your Xbox may help. It doesn’t matter how fast your Internet is, you’re a piece of the pie is not under your control

joarv

Typically downloads are throttled based on current server loads. Also hard resetting your Xbox may help. It doesn’t matter how fast your Internet is, you’re a piece of the pie is not under your control

It's weird though, because they do deliver much higher speeds for a short amount of time before throttling :/

Cris Seybold

I'm having the same issue.

I've done the restore option both with keeping games and without. It made no difference.

This is a MS store issue. The store is throttling downloads poorly. Instead of reducing bandwidth to high draw users it is throttling back to zero. After a pause the download starts again goes up to max speed for my connection for a minute or two and then throttles back to zero again. Rinse and repeat.

Edit: I should have included, if the pause after throttling is long enough the installation will fail and you'll get "installation stopped" in the queue. Your only recourse then is to try to cancel the install and restart it hoping it will finish this time.

The store is poorly coded or managed. This is a long term problem that has existed for years, a quick search online showed me people having this issue going back to a least 2018. Well before series x.

Xbox Series X download throttled?