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laena_the_gifted Aug 20, 2015 @ 4:44pm
[Solved] [Ubuntu 15.04] Downloading games is incredibly slow
I just had a fresh install of Ubuntu 15.04 and downloading games on Steam is painfully slow (tonight in bytes/s when I otherwise have a snappy Internet connexion).

Changing servers won't help. I didn't set any limit to the bandwidth Steam can use.Rebooting won't help either. Downloads estimates are in days at best. For some reason, I can't check the load on Steam servers.

How could I fix this? Is it possible that something went wrong when installing Steam? I've succesfully downloaded games but it took far longer that it should have.

Any help welcome!

Edit It's only when downloading games really. Oddly enough I have no problems watching videos in the client. When downloading a game the speed would be decent at first but would steadily drop to 0 or almost.
Last edited by laena_the_gifted; Aug 21, 2015 @ 1:34am
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scotynau Aug 20, 2015 @ 5:09pm 
too weird...
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pirate king lookin for booty Aug 20, 2015 @ 6:36pm 
What kind of connection do you have? If WIFI, what brand? Who is your ISP?
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Blumimic Aug 20, 2015 @ 7:08pm 
I wonder if this is a ipv6 problem you could try disabling it. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IPv6?action=show&redirect=IPV6#Disabling_IPv6

It might also be a bad modem / router etc.

Just a few thoughts from other posts I've read.
Last edited by Blumimic; Aug 20, 2015 @ 7:09pm
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Sanguivor Aug 20, 2015 @ 9:06pm 
Seems like you hit the bug where Steam floods your nameserver. Please try this workaround: https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/2/616189106498372437/
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laena_the_gifted Aug 21, 2015 @ 1:28am 
Thanks for your answers!
I'm using a wired connexion (30Mb/s) and IPv4. Surprisingly my game seems to have downloaded overnight. But it took 4h yesterday to download 1.3Go and it has been stuck at 1.3Go for 2h, hence me being pessimistic. I can't consider my problem solved and I'll have a look to your 2 links. Thanks again!
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laena_the_gifted Aug 21, 2015 @ 1:34am 
I've just had a look at your article Sanguivor and I believe this could indeed solve my problem! Thanks a lot! Thread can be considered closed now.
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laena_the_gifted Aug 21, 2015 @ 2:54am 
Downloading games at 3.5Mb/s now, your magic works wonders Sanguivor!
Last edited by laena_the_gifted; Aug 21, 2015 @ 2:55am
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Sanguivor Aug 21, 2015 @ 6:26am 
It's unfortunate that the details of the bug have been known for a year and it still hasn't been fixed. And as a result the Steam on Linux client still performs a small scale denial-of-service attack on nameservers.
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Shikigami Jan 29, 2016 @ 9:11pm 
I solved my problem with slow downloads @Ubuntu using this command:

eatmydata steam
or
eatmydata32 steam
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Arpeginio Aug 14, 2017 @ 11:43am 
You can have some weird DNS nameservers configured! Solved my problem by editing resolv.conf by terminal command:
sudo nano /etc/resolv.conf

In command line editor comment by # sign ALL current nameservers
and use 'nameserver 8.8.8.8' instead. Example:

#nameserver 127.0.1.1
nameserver 8.8.8.8

To save file press Ctrl+X and 'Y', then Enter. No Steam reload needed.
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