Yeah it seems there is no setting for actual full game download bandwidth, even though you are able to click on the speed in the launcher/download manager, and it takes you do the bandwidth limit section of the settings. Even hovering over the speed will show a small tooltip saying “Modify bandwidth settings”.
Would be nice if this was addressed. Seems a decent amount of people are concerned about it. I for one have a limited connection where I just moved to, and wanted to reserve some bandwidth for other internet usage while I download a 100gb game…
same prob, why not a single option like millions of game clients ?
I just clean installed my windows 11 and this is still an issue. The limit is not working on a fresh install.
Still an issue, all we need is a simple download limiter.
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Having the problem too, just ridiculous the limiter only works for “some” updates, I’m currently updating WoW, it should work… but doesn’t.
Hi! Just wanted to chime in and confirm that this is still an issue. As Chrissy2910 mentioned on 23-07-20, if I wait for about a minute, the download speed slowly backs down to where I set the limit. It causes some issues on voice chat programs as the download spikes and eats up every available iota of bandwidth, but it seems to resolve itself with time.
Edit: The issue happens both with initial downloads and game updates for already installed games.
it would be great if you can add an option for Initial Downloads to limit the speed, we hope.
because technically it’s not hard to add such option into the launcher.
Thank you.
@everyone For those of you still needing to fix this issue of not being able to throttle downloads using limiter.
First Open Settings, Then Click App, Scroll all the way to the bottom, TURN OFF Browser Hardware Acceleration. TADAAAAA
nope! it didnt work for me 
@CafeCasper this didn’t fix for me.
devs don’t realize how critical this feature is for gamers sharing an internet connection. I can’t download my new game right now because limiter won’t work and my roomie is streaming.
After several tries, it seems to work, but within ~5 minutes. I set 7000 kbps as a limit in both boxes and after 5 minutes it throttled the download speed. (COD update)
I am having this problem in 2.26.0.
UPD: never mind, I had to wait for some time until the new settings kick in.
Holy its been months already, just add an option for us already. This is ridiculous, even EA’s new launcher has a functioning one.
Add me to the list, Win 10 & 11, 2 different accounts, limit is almost always ignored.
Stop assuming every use case is like you, we don’t all have fiber blizzard, I can’t be hogging my entire tiny amount of bandwidth for hours, get it fixed.
Hi All.
I’ve had this problem and was very impatient but now it works. I set mine to 25000 and left it for 5 min and it worked. Download is now capped at 24.93 MB/s and now Task Manager is reporting 245-249Mbps. Seems to max out when you first start the download but it sorts it’s self out after after a little time. Hope is helps someone.
Same here limit is not working
For everyone having that issue, here’s a Fix that works, as long as you have Windows 10/11 PRO. It doesn’t work on Home-Editions.
- Open Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc in the start menu)
- go into Computer-Configuration → Windows Settings → Policy-Based-QoS
- Rightclick it, and hit “Create new Policy”
- Give it any name you like (i named it “Battle.net”) and mark the checkbox “specify throttle rate”, and enter whatever amount you like to have as limit.
- Then hit next, and there select “Applications with this name” and enter “Battle.net.exe” as name.
- The Rest can be kept at default, just make sure to select “tcp AND udp” when asked. i don’t know if it is required, but its good to be safe.
- Then once it’s created, your limit should automatically apply to downloads.
Sadly, there is no way to disable those policies, so you would either keep it enabled all the time, or delete it and create a new one every time.
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Been having this problem now for months too. The download speed limit settings on battle.net just don’t work, the two values you can set don’t do anything. They used to work in the past. I’m for example unable to install right away a game I purchased, because downloading at full bandwidth would make our remote work traffic during the day time too laggy. So it is a pretty bad bug in some situations and still not fixed. These speed limit settings generally work really well on other platforms, like Steam.
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I have this problem also since month!
The fix with the GroupPolicy also don’t work for me. I also tried “all apps” and it is the same. Too bad, I thought that could really help