Xbox series x download speeds

[sx_turbo]

Hi, just feeling a bit curious

Downloaded a game for my boy today on his series x, the download speed maxed out at 290 mb/s.

We are on 500 mb/s fibre, and I do get a consistent 450mb/s pretty much all the time, rarely does it go much below 400, but does regularly get to 500.

Anyway, the series X is connected to the router via a gigabit ethernet switch, no other devices were downloading at the time. Once the download finished I done a speed check and was seeing 485 download speed via WiFi on my phone.

Any my question is, why can't the Xbox download at the full available speed? Is it the ethernet switch? The server downloading from? Limitation of the Xbox ?

Just curious really

 

[sx_turbo]

Having downloaded a game today on my pc via Microsoft game pass, I'm inclined to agree it's Microsoft end, I only got 185 mb/s download today

 

[sx_turbo]

I've had fibre 900 installed and I'm maxing out at 110MB/S on steam, Rockstar etc but on the Xbox app I can't get more than 80MB/S. The speeds are very inconsistent too, they'll drop and rise constantly whereas other clients reach a max speed and stay there until downloads complete.

I know there's a load of apparent fixes posted for slow speeds but like others have said I think it's down to Microsoft's servers. Ridiculous really considering how large they are as a company. You'd think they'd have servers that could cope.

First world problems I know lol....

I'd have thought they would want fast servers so people can go on, download and get off again so they're servers don't get too clogged