Exciting new Xbox feature accelerates game download speeds in one click

Microsoft has a new characteristic for Xbox Insiders to try out that helps dramatically increase the speed of downloading games. The new characteristic allows you to manually suspend games direct from the page for managing downloads. Suspending a game can increment download speeds more than tenfold. In our testing on a Gigabit connexion, we saw a jump from 40mbps to 750mbps when we suspended a game.

It'southward important to annotation that you could already suspend games on Xbox consoles, including the Xbox Series 10, Xbox Series S, and Xbox One. The feature in testing for Xbox Insiders just makes it easier to do so from a dissimilar location.

Eden Marie, engineering science pb at Xbox, shared the new option on Twitter.

Hey Xbox Insiders! Did y'all notice these changes rolling out at present? Append in the queue will let yous download at full speed while making sure your game remains resumable (or quick resume-able on Serial X|S). New banners in the Full Library will take you to more useful categories! moving picture.twitter.com/L49winRpM0
— Eden Marie (@neonepiphany) March 16, 2022

Placing an option to suspend games in the page for managing downloads should make it easy to boost game download speeds. Many of the best Xbox One games are quite large, so suspending a game to quickly finish a download tin help you jump into a new game without having to await long.

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