GTA 6 pre-loads drove a record at Frankfurt’s internet hub (report)

Your GTA 6 pre-load was part of a record. Frankfurt’s DE-CIX, the internet exchange where close to 1,100 networks swap traffic, says it measured a new all-time peak of 22.30 terabits per second on the evening of Tuesday 10 November 2026, the first day of pre-loading. The operator told Golem on 11 November that the peak came in parallel with the GTA VI download start, and that its exchanges worldwide also hit a new high of 33.01 Tbit/s.

Some quick maths: 22.30 Tbit/s is roughly 2.8 terabytes every second. With a pre-load of up to 212 GB, that is enough to move the whole game about 13 times a second. Golem says the Frankfurt peak is 19.06% above where it stood in January 2026.

The exchange was not alone. In a dpa report of 11 November, German provider 1&1 said traffic on the first night was at times about ten times an ordinary night, Telekom said the volume was many times higher than usual, and Comcast said it expected the pre-load and launch window to bring the highest weekly traffic in the history of its Xfinity network. Vodafone said the pre-load is spreading over several days, which flattens the peaks. In the Netherlands, Telecompaper reports that Ziggo, the country’s second-largest home broadband provider, saw traffic 57 percent above normal just after midnight Dutch time, and the whole Tuesday night about 30 percent busier than usual. In the UK, Virgin Media O2 already reported a record day on the same Tuesday.

These are the networks’ own figures about their own traffic, and DE-CIX’s link to GTA VI is the operator’s reading; Rockstar has said nothing about it. The record sits in our claims register as a report. Providers also expect heavy traffic on launch day, 19 November.

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