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gpcstargate Dec 8, 2023 @ 9:16pm
WHEN WILL STEAM Fix their Damn DownLoad speed?
YELP .. SOME OLD STEAM issue 1 GB internet and a 18 MB Download. 2 Hrs to download the update.

WHEN Will STEAM Fix their system.??????? .. AND .. YES, Cache has been cleaned.
Last edited by gpcstargate; Dec 8, 2023 @ 9:17pm
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CatPerson Dec 8, 2023 @ 9:21pm 
Probably more to do with something in the pipeline between you and Steam. It's not like you have a direct line connection to their servers. Or what time/how busy they are.

We also have 1GB 'net and today during the update I was getting around 60MB/sec. Other days other downloads it's been 90MB/sec. Still other days/times/games it's been 35MB/sec. Or it starts kinda middling but bounces up and down constantly. blahblah :)
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gpcstargate Dec 8, 2023 @ 9:25pm 
Originally posted by CatPerson:
Probably more to do with something in the pipeline between you and Steam. It's not like you have a direct line connection to their servers. Or what time/how busy they are.

We also have 1GB 'net and today during the update I was getting around 60MB/sec. Other days other downloads it's been 90MB/sec. Still other days/times/games it's been 35MB/sec. Or it starts kinda middling but bounces up and down constantly. blahblah :)

I used to get that all the time around 60 MB .. But haven't seen anything like that in over 8 months, maybe longer. .... The other day - I had one it only hit 9 MB DL and that really sucks with today's speeds.
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LoneGunman Dec 8, 2023 @ 9:32pm 
Have you tried a different data center? Settings -> Downloads -> Download region.

I remember having issues with downloads a long time ago (we're talking a few years) that was fixed sort of by using another nearby region. Even switching regions could sometimes jog something in Steam.

Also, you definitely didn't touch your download settings, right? I'm on a 500 Gbps fiber connection (theoretical of course) and I actually throttled Steam to 300 Gbps because otherwise I'd hog the connection and affect streams in the house. :)
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wkitty42 Dec 9, 2023 @ 4:57am 
what CatPerson said... today's world is shared pipelines to shared servers with numerous routers in between... not like the old POTS days when you had a line all to yourself connecting to a (generally) non-shared BBS (aka server)... the so-called "new world" is not always better than the old one... any overloaded device in today's path will slow all traffic through that device and there is nothing an end-user can do about it...
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Zak Dec 9, 2023 @ 5:21am 
Originally posted by gpcstargate:
YELP .. SOME OLD STEAM issue 1 GB internet and a 18 MB Download. 2 Hrs to download the update.

WHEN Will STEAM Fix their system.??????? .. AND .. YES, Cache has been cleaned.
Try a different download location in Steam's preferences. Also, open a support ticket with Steam. I regularly get 800+ Mbps over my Gigabit when downloading Steam games.
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sigthyra Dec 9, 2023 @ 5:38am 
For me it helps to exit steam and restart it. Seems a combo of windows and steams urge to tell me about deals at times clash. Easiest fix with no talent for sorting a thing, is to restart steam.
Downloads at a crawl speed speeds up to fairly okay.
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X-C0brA-X Dec 9, 2023 @ 8:40am 
Drive speeds affect dl also, an old HDD is much slower than an SSD when it comes to write speeds. I put my big Steam games and the ones that update a lot like Icarus and New World on an SSD and since doing that they update a lot faster. Those 2 games often have huge updates that used to take a long time on an old HDD. On an old HDD I had a few Icarus updates that took over an hour even with my internet being 1gb fiber optic but since moving it an internal SSD the longest update has been about 5 minutes.

Like some said dl location also affects speeds and it might be the dl location you are using is getting lots of traffic.
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Zak Dec 9, 2023 @ 8:59am 
Originally posted by X-C0brA-X:
Drive speeds affect dl also, an old HDD is much slower than an SSD when it comes to write speeds. I put my big Steam games and the ones that update a lot like Icarus and New World on an SSD and since doing that they update a lot faster. Those 2 games often have huge updates that used to take a long time on an old HDD. On an old HDD I had a few Icarus updates that took over an hour even with my internet being 1gb fiber optic but since moving it an internal SSD the longest update has been about 5 minutes.

Like some said dl location also affects speeds and it might be the dl location you are using is getting lots of traffic.

Gigabit network (1Gb/s) equals roughly 115MB/s in real life (1000/8 minus some overhead). Most modern 3.5" hard drives can write that fast easily. But yeah, all gamers should be on SSDs anyway :) Most likely this looks like a network bottleneck somewhere between OP's location and the datacenter serving Steam files.
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Arson Aardvark Dec 9, 2023 @ 9:06am 
Try changing your download region through the settings. Even if you set it and set it back again, it sometimes kicks it into gear.
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gpcstargate Dec 9, 2023 @ 9:20am 
I have and not much help and STEAM is on a SSD 1TB.
Everytime I clear cache Steam will kick it Back to Wash DC since I'm on the east coast.
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wkitty42 Dec 9, 2023 @ 9:49am 
Originally posted by gpcstargate:
Everytime I clear cache Steam will kick it Back to Wash DC since I'm on the east coast.
sounds like it is choosing the one closest to you... i'm in central NC and mine is set to Charlotte, NC... FWIW of course...
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AREA-57 Dec 9, 2023 @ 9:56am 
I am also on the East Coast. I use "US - Charlotte" and get about 500-ish from that server

Who is your provider?
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gpcstargate Dec 9, 2023 @ 10:15am 
A Joke right, Lol ... No just kidding .. It's Xfinity a offspring of Comcast and I just switched to Charlotte, hoping it stays on it so I can try it for another downloads.
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magelord01 Dec 9, 2023 @ 10:50am 
Originally posted by CatPerson:
Probably more to do with something in the pipeline between you and Steam. It's not like you have a direct line connection to their servers. Or what time/how busy they are.

We also have 1GB 'net and today during the update I was getting around 60MB/sec. Other days other downloads it's been 90MB/sec. Still other days/times/games it's been 35MB/sec. Or it starts kinda middling but bounces up and down constantly. blahblah :)

Maybe Steam's download servers still have DSL and Cable Internet systems in mind. DSL (Digital Subscriber Line), I believe, has a maximum speed of 1 Megabit per second; and Cable maxes out at around 300 Megabits per second. I do believe that, to this day, even American city-dwellers have mostly DSL or Cable Internet.
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AREA-57 Dec 9, 2023 @ 11:25am 
Originally posted by gpcstargate:
A Joke right, Lol ... No just kidding .. It's Xfinity a offspring of Comcast and I just switched to Charlotte, hoping it stays on it so I can try it for another downloads.

I don't think that's going to solve your problem. I just switched to the "US - Washington, DC" server and I get about the same as I do with Charlotte.
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