Uncapped download speeds should be an option take my money

[Tweety]

I'd like uncapped downloads. I currently only get 70-105 MB/s downloads on steam and have google fiber where I get 1 gig up and down. I'm assuming it's data throttling but if steam were to allow higher speeds for either a monthly fee or maybe an extra 50 cents to a dollar for that one download as an option when you buy the game would be nice.

I essentially want what amazon prime is but for steam. Do you think they could do this or is it out of the realm of possibility?
EDIT: Same as my last comment so you don't need to scroll down...

Some googling I found my answer.

1 gigabyte is equal to 1024 MB or megabytes. 1 gigabit is equal to 1000 megabits. Google/ any ISP who advertises "gig speed" (gigabit is 1/8 of a gigabyte) which I thought was offering 1000 MB/s (again megabytes per second) but is actually offering 1000 mb/s (megabits per second).

I thought I would be able to download a 100 GB game like GTAV in around 100 seconds but this is not the case.

Data is typically measured in bits storage in bytes. Hope this helps anyone else who thinks their "gig speed" is so slow at 100 MB/s when in reality that's what you're paying for.

[my new friend]

Originally posted by Tweety:

Uncapped download speeds should be an option take my money
I'd like uncapped downloads. I currently only get 70-105 MB/s downloads on steam and have google fiber where I get 1 gig up and down. I'm assuming it's data throttling but if steam were to allow higher speeds for either a monthly fee or maybe an extra 50 cents to a dollar for that one download as an option when you buy the game would be nice.

I essentially want what amazon prime is but for steam. Do you think they could do this or is it out of the realm of possibility?

They are not capped. https://imgur.com/a/UOSmU45
And you can not get more than what you pay your provider for anyways.

[Chompman]

It's not steam that causes this but somewhere else like your isp or hardware issues.

Otherwise remember that steam uses MB and your 1 gig download would be about 125 MB so it seems it's up there in most cases.

[Vin.]

Interesting, I have 1.2gigabit download but only get like 30mb/s download on steam lol. Definitely not a hardware bottleneck either as my Steam games drive is a 4tb NVME

[Tweety]

Originally posted by my new friend:

Originally posted by Tweety:

Uncapped download speeds should be an option take my money
I'd like uncapped downloads. I currently only get 70-105 MB/s downloads on steam and have google fiber where I get 1 gig up and down. I'm assuming it's data throttling but if steam were to allow higher speeds for either a monthly fee or maybe an extra 50 cents to a dollar for that one download as an option when you buy the game would be nice.

I essentially want what amazon prime is but for steam. Do you think they could do this or is it out of the realm of possibility?

They are not capped. https://imgur.com/a/UOSmU45
And you can not get more than what you pay your provider for anyways.

Originally posted by Chompman:

It's not steam that causes this but somewhere else like your isp or hardware issues.

Otherwise remember that steam uses MB and your 1 gig download would be about 125 MB so it seems it's up there in most cases.

Damn that's impressive speed. All I've done is run those speed tests and they show gig speed. I have an Asus Z390i gaming connected to cat 5e cable and a Samsung 970 evo plus 2TB NVMe. Sounds like my issue would be with the ISP then or could it still be hardware? Set my data center to to my city in settings and no luck.

[Vin.]

I guess Xfinity is throttling steam for me because I've tried a lot of different things and nothing made my steam downloads faster

[Chompman]

Originally posted by Tweety:

Originally posted by my new friend:

They are not capped. https://imgur.com/a/UOSmU45
And you can not get more than what you pay your provider for anyways.

Originally posted by Chompman:

It's not steam that causes this but somewhere else like your isp or hardware issues.

Otherwise remember that steam uses MB and your 1 gig download would be about 125 MB so it seems it's up there in most cases.

Damn that's impressive speed. All I've done is run those speed tests and they show gig speed. I have an Asus Z390i gaming connected to cat 5e cable and a Samsung 970 evo plus 2TB NVMe. Sounds like my issue would be with the ISP then or could it still be hardware? Set my data center to to my city in settings and no luck.

The image they posted was using Mbps so the 935 peak is 116 MB so not a ton faster then yours of 105 MB.

One MB is equal to 8 Mb in case you didn't know.

Your google fiber of 1 gig is 1,000 Mb or 125 MB.

[Tweety]

Originally posted by Chompman:

Originally posted by Tweety:

Damn that's impressive speed. All I've done is run those speed tests and they show gig speed. I have an Asus Z390i gaming connected to cat 5e cable and a Samsung 970 evo plus 2TB NVMe. Sounds like my issue would be with the ISP then or could it still be hardware? Set my data center to to my city in settings and no luck.

The image they posted was using Mbps so the 935 peak is 116 MB so not a ton faster then yours of 105 MB.

One MB is equal to 8 Mb in case you didn't know.

Your google fiber of 1 gig is 1,000 Mb or 125 MB.

Ah thank you for pointing this out I forgot to check for the little b and big B. I was tempted to get googles 2 gig speed once i get a better motherboard but I don't think I'd ever hit those speeds outside of torrenting and things of that nature.
https://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/ shows the bandwidths and I'm right up there. I think it just matters on time of day and other factors.

[MeowCats]

Firefox browser also throttles download speeds on steam, without any tabs open.. no idea why it does that though.

Atleast it does on my end. Might be similar with your case.. who knows

[Satoru]

Originally posted by Cats:

Firefox browser also throttles download speeds on steam, without any tabs open.. no idea why it does that though.

Atleast it does on my end. Might be similar with your case.. who knows

Firefox can’t do that ……….

[my new friend]

Originally posted by Cats:

Firefox browser also throttles download speeds on steam, without any tabs open.. no idea why it does that though.

Atleast it does on my end. Might be similar with your case.. who knows :lunar2019piginablanket:

You might want to do some scanning for malware.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by Tweety:

Originally posted by my new friend:

They are not capped. https://imgur.com/a/UOSmU45
And you can not get more than what you pay your provider for anyways.

Originally posted by Chompman:

It's not steam that causes this but somewhere else like your isp or hardware issues.

Otherwise remember that steam uses MB and your 1 gig download would be about 125 MB so it seems it's up there in most cases.

Damn that's impressive speed. All I've done is run those speed tests and they show gig speed. I have an Asus Z390i gaming connected to cat 5e cable and a Samsung 970 evo plus 2TB NVMe. Sounds like my issue would be with the ISP then or could it still be hardware? Set my data center to to my city in settings and no luck.

Two things.

As others have said, Steam doesn't throtle anything so if you're getting issues it's either your end or your ISP.

Also, remember that Steam downloads are both encrypted and compressed so it ain't just your connection that determines download speed - you can see this from the downloads page graph and your task manager. Your RAM, I/O, CPU and more determine this.

Lastly, it ain't like online gaming either. You DO NOT need to use your nearest server to download. In fact that can be the worst. Ping is NOT relevant as it's a one way download.

And if your region is congested, your closest neighbouring connection is likely the same. What you should do is try googling timezones. Find anywhere in the world currently in the wee hours of the morning (say 2 to 4 am) and pick any of those.

[Capt.Luke]

sometime people set a download speedlimit in the steam setting. and forget about it.
or they use the slow down when gaming. and they have a clicker game open when they downlaod a new one and its throtle it

[Tweety]

Some googling I found my answer.

1 gigabyte is equal to 1024 MB or megabytes. 1 gigabit is equal to 1000 megabits. Google/ any ISP who advertises "gig speed" (gigabit is 1/8 of a gigabyte) which I thought was offering 1000 MB/s (again megabytes per second) but is actually offering 1000 mb/s (megabits per second).

I thought I would be able to download a 100 GB game like GTAV in around 100 seconds but this is not the case.

Data is typically measured in bits storage in bytes. Hope this helps anyone else who thinks their "gig speed" is so slow at 100 MB/s when in reality that's what you're paying for.

[nullable]

Originally posted by Tweety:

Data is typically measured in bits storage in bytes. Hope this helps anyone else who thinks their "gig speed" is so slow at 100 MB/s when in reality that's what you're paying for.

Measuring connection speeds speeds in bits has been the standard practice for pretty much the entire existence of networking. But while it's pretty common knowledge, there's always instances where people just miss it.

Another common sort of instance of this sort of common knowledge that people more commonly don't understand is how we've repurposed the SI prefixes kilo-, mega-, giga-, tera-, etc.

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-archive-ee/1.2.4.0?topic=overview-data-storage-values

Which is why when you buy a 1TB drive, and you install it and format it has much less than 1TB of space because of the differences between the technically correct base10 usage of the prefix. And the very commonly used, but every more inaccurate base2 usage.

It wasn't that noticable with smaller capacities 30 years ago. But the large the size the mor divergent the values are. So 1KB is 24bytes off between the two usages. But 1TB is 70GB off between the two usages.

We could fix this by using the binary prefixes. kibi, mebi, gibi, tebi, etc when appropriate. But there's too much momentum behind our long term usage of the SI prefixes for all use cases. And using the binary terms sound wrong to people. Nobody wants to be the first one to talk about gibibytes like it's normal. Or maybe we'll just make the SI terms do double duty forever even though eventually they'll be over hundred trillion bytes apart by the time we get to petabytes.

[Tweety]

Originally posted by Snakub Plissken:

Originally posted by Tweety:

Data is typically measured in bits storage in bytes. Hope this helps anyone else who thinks their "gig speed" is so slow at 100 MB/s when in reality that's what you're paying for.

Measuring connection speeds speeds in bits has been the standard practice for pretty much the entire existence of networking. But while it's pretty common knowledge, there's always instances where people just miss it.

Another common sort of instance of this sort of common knowledge that people more commonly don't understand is how we've repurposed the SI prefixes kilo-, mega-, giga-, tera-, etc.

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-archive-ee/1.2.4.0?topic=overview-data-storage-values

Which is why when you buy a 1TB drive, and you install it and format it has much less than 1TB of space because of the differences between the technically correct base10 usage of the prefix. And the very commonly used, but every more inaccurate base2 usage.

It wasn't that noticable with smaller capacities 30 years ago. But the large the size the mor divergent the values are. So 1KB is 24bytes off between the two usages. But 1TB is 70GB off between the two usages.

We could fix this by using the binary prefixes. kibi, mebi, gibi, tebi, etc when appropriate. But there's too much momentum behind our long term usage of the SI prefixes for all use cases. And using the binary terms sound wrong to people. Nobody wants to be the first one to talk about gibibytes like it's normal. Or maybe we'll just make the SI terms do double duty forever even though eventually they'll be over hundred trillion bytes apart by the time we get to petabytes.

Thank you for this nugget of information. I considered myself pretty tech savvy up until 20 minutes ago looking into this. It was just something I assumed and never looked into and am glad I did as I'm prepping for my CompTIA A+ cert. Somewhat misleading advertising when they call it gig speed as people like myself assume gigabyte instead of gigabit. Learned some new stuff today.