Why are downloads on Steam so terrible.

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Yessirski 2020. júl. 22., 20:26

Why are downloads on Steam so terrible.

I just did the Ookla speedtest and I have 370 mbps downlaod and 255 upload. Why then, do I barely peak at 42 Mb/s download and on average like 3Mb/s with lots of interruptions and random gaps in downloading. I've used other services to download games like Origin and on there I can download a 100 gb game in like 30 minutes, but on Steam recently it takes hours to download anything larger than 50. I feel like it used to be much faster but recently it's been awful.

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Crashed 2023. febr. 20., 0:03

Elucidator eredeti hozzászólása:
Mickey_trifecta eredeti hozzászólása:
ITS HORRIBLE!! ill get 800 mbps then back to zero then literally 15mbps until i pause and resume it over and over...
This thread is very old. I am not sure why you necroposted when there are other more recent threads discussing the same issue and also since you could open up your own thread.
I don't think the conditions are the same.
Also why the speed is horrible in your case isn't explained in your post + could have many different reasons.

Might have shown up in the first page of results on Google.

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Lystent 2023. febr. 20., 14:12

Crashed eredeti hozzászólása:
Elucidator eredeti hozzászólása:
This thread is very old. I am not sure why you necroposted when there are other more recent threads discussing the same issue and also since you could open up your own thread.
I don't think the conditions are the same.
Also why the speed is horrible in your case isn't explained in your post + could have many different reasons.
Might have shown up in the first page of results on Google.

Or even steam forums' search engine.

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Grooveryy 2023. febr. 20., 15:13

I think maybe it's because of the internet connection, once of us confront with this type of problem and the best you can do is to unplug your router and put it in again, maybe you're connection will be good for a while.

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crunchyfrog 2023. febr. 20., 18:48

Grooveryy elitegamers.ro eredeti hozzászólása:
I think maybe it's because of the internet connection, once of us confront with this type of problem and the best you can do is to unplug your router and put it in again, maybe you're connection will be good for a while.

No that's not how it works.

As others have said, this is an old thread and there are many better threads which explain what to do.

It's basically misunderstanding of how it works here, usually.

Steam doesn't work like a lot of other services. When it dowenloads games, they're encrypted AND compressed. So they will download a chunk, then pause while it uncompresses and sorts, and rewrites the data on the hard drive. Then it continues.

That is how it's supposed to work. And many get it round their neck thinking this is wrong.

Of course, because of this procedure, it also means that as it's using more system resources, if you have any wekaer parts to your PC, that's going to bottleneck things.

So it could be your I/O, your hard drive(s), your RAM, CPU and so on.

This is why there's graphs on the downloads page, and you monitor your Task Manager in Windows. If you see that the download is stopping on the graph but the hard drive is active, then it's wroking as it should. If you go to your Task Manager and see that certain systems resources are bit hit hard, then that's your bottleneck.

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( ( < < <🤖> > > ) ) 2023. febr. 20., 19:39

i downloaded Borderlands 3 137GB to a 2 tb hard drive about 12 hours..

constant bandwidth all the way...
i have slow internet which doesnt exceed the speed of my system processing...

maybe there should be a game download test pinned in OS and Hardware
where we can compare speeds and time of one free game..

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isomorphic_projection 2023. febr. 21., 2:22

ragefifty50 eredeti hozzászólása:
i downloaded Borderlands 3 137GB to a 2 tb hard drive about 12 hours..

constant bandwidth all the way...
i have slow internet which doesnt exceed the speed of my system processing...

maybe there should be a game download test pinned in OS and Hardware
where we can compare speeds and time of one free game..

And what is the speed of the harddrive itself.

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( ( < < <🤖> > > ) ) 2023. febr. 21., 4:15

isomorphic_projection eredeti hozzászólása:
ragefifty50 eredeti hozzászólása:
i downloaded Borderlands 3 137GB to a 2 tb hard drive about 12 hours..

constant bandwidth all the way...
i have slow internet which doesnt exceed the speed of my system processing...

maybe there should be a game download test pinned in OS and Hardware
where we can compare speeds and time of one free game..
And what is the speed of the harddrive itself.

interesting....

i thought it was 7200

Storage Capacity 2TB
Cache 256 MB
Rotation Speed 5400 RPM
Type Internal Desktop Drive
Transfer Rate 600 Mbps
Interface SATA III
Product Line WD Blue

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Apathetic 2023. márc. 5., 14:45

Crimtide eredeti hozzászólása:
There is absolutely nothing wrong with your download rates.. You do realize that MB/s (megaBYTE) and your connection speed Mbps (megaBIT), are two different rates? one is megaBYTE, the other is megaBIT.. 1 BYTE = 8 BITS.. so 42 megaBYTEs = 336 megaBITs, so you ARE getting your max theoretical download speed..

this all you people need to understand you cant use mb and gb when you MEAN MB and GB or no one knows whats going on.

edit: GFD this is a necro.

Legutóbb szerkesztette: Apathetic; 2023. márc. 5., 14:45

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Mr.breadfruit 2023. dec. 28., 22:27

Ngl it might just be your internet

#39

n4rfzoink 2024. jan. 11., 4:40

ragefifty50 eredeti hozzászólása:
i downloaded Borderlands 3 137GB to a 2 tb hard drive about 12 hours..

constant bandwidth all the way...
i have slow internet which doesnt exceed the speed of my system processing...

maybe there should be a game download test pinned in OS and Hardware
where we can compare speeds and time of one free game..

I'm 8% thru the BL3 download and I have 22hrs left..
My downloads are generally 6Mb/s while watching YT.

I'm at the point of having to avoid buying games in steam because AAA games are so big these days.

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PepeVonZdepe 2024. jan. 24., 10:01

I've been on Steam since 2009. Steam downloads have always been and still are bad. No matter what the best computer or internet I had, it was always worse. I currently have 1000/1000 gigabit fiber internet at home and I'm like watching my favorite games download at a maximum of 40 MB/s? Whether it's the Rockstar Games Launcher, Ubisoft Connect or the EA app, I can use the full speed of my gigabit optical connection in these game clients. Dear Steam you should be ashamed.

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crunchyfrog 2024. jan. 24., 12:16

PepeVonZdepe eredeti hozzászólása:
I've been on Steam since 2009. Steam downloads have always been and still are bad. No matter what the best computer or internet I had, it was always worse. I currently have 1000/1000 gigabit fiber internet at home and I'm like watching my favorite games download at a maximum of 40 MB/s? Whether it's the Rockstar Games Launcher, Ubisoft Connect or the EA app, I can use the full speed of my gigabit optical connection in these game clients. Dear Steam you should be ashamed.

For a start 40MB/s is not 40 Mb/s. You need to multiply by 8.

Second it depends on your system resources as Steam does it differently - all downlaods are encrypted and compressed. So it takes your RAM, CPU, drives, I/O and more. If any of those are a weak point it'll bottleneck.

Many people overlook this.

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