Some game downloads will be throttled to preserve bandwidth

Over the coming weeks and months, you may find some of your games are downloading slower than usual. That’s because Akamai, a global server host used by a number of gaming companies, is starting to throttle video downloads in certain places at key times to make sure bandwidth is available particularly for healthcare workers. The Akamai content delivery network (CDN) have been used for gaming companies and services including Microsoft and Riot games, and they’ll likely be affected. You might also notice that, for much the same reason, YouTube is starting to show lower-quality versions of videos by default.

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