Downloading the latest games plays havoc on a person's internet connection. The biggest, flashiest titles are getting seriously bloated file sizes, and even with the best internet connection, there's a lot of data to get from a remote server onto your machine. And it seems that the various clients you have to use for this process like to gobble up as much of your bandwidth as humanly possible.
If you use Steam a lot, you've probably already come across its feature to limit downloads to avoid this happening. I mainly use Steam, and didn't even think about it when downloading Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 not from there, but from the Xbox app on Windows 11. That is, I didn't think about it until my wife, also working from home, yelled that the internet had stopped working and she couldn't do anything.
