Comcast is bragging about what it refers to as its “biggest week in the history of the internet.” Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Downloads and Thursday Night Football streams. The company says so Call of duty The game, which released on October 25, was responsible for a whopping 19 percent of all traffic last week.

It's not really possible to quantify this more precisely, as Comcast hasn't provided any specific numbers – neither how many customers downloaded the game nor how large their downloads were. Between 84.4 GB for the PlayStation version and 102 GB for the PC version Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is, in the great tradition of Call of duty Games, an extensive download. It can be up to 300GB if players choose to download Modern Warfare II And III and all associated content packs and languages, Activision said in June.

When Comcast brags about its gigantic network traffic weekend in this way, if you just scratch the surface a little, it underscores just how restrictive the 1.2TB data cap in 2024 can be. The company raised this cap during the Covid pandemic and even delayed its reintroduction several times, but still brought it back in most US states.

The FCC, which says providers have the “technical ability” to operate without such restrictions, is currently studying how they affect consumers. Whether the FCC can actually do anything about this is questionable.

For all players who downloaded the entire massive 300GB package, they wiped out a large portion of their 1.2TB Xfinity data cap in one fell swoop. If they were to otherwise use their internet as usual, this could result in them reaching or even exceeding this cap. Given that my family used almost 800GB last month without downloading any particularly large games, it wouldn't be that hard.