GTA 6 Pre-Load Breaks Internet Traffic Records at Frankfurt's DE-CIX

The pre-release download of Grand Theft Auto 6 has caused a record surge in internet traffic at Frankfurt's DE-CIX exchange, with a new peak of 22.30 terabits per second measured Tuesday evening. Vodafone reported transport network throughput over 4 terabits per second Tuesday morning, about 60 percent above the previous day, while competitor 1&1 saw traffic spikes up to ten times normal levels from PlayStation and Xbox services. The 212-gigabyte game download began Monday for pre-order customers. DE-CIX CTO Thomas King noted the infrastructure has capacity reserves for such events, with global traffic surpassing 33 terabits per second for the first time. Telekom advises using pre-load features, stable connections, and notes a 100-megabit connection takes nearly five hours to download.