Steam Maintenance

[Ravynshade]

Steam needs maintenance badly the download speed I'm experiencing is really slow my ISP even said theirs is really slow to with unusual download times

[Sazzouu]

What? An ISP does not want to admit that they provide a bad service? That completely blew my mind!

Sarcasm aside...
Steam is very capable of making use of my entire 1Gbits. Let alone this puppy...
https://youtu.be/gk1eKPRLaJA

[Ravynshade]

Clearly for me it takes 30 minutes to download a 10GB game

[13119205187913161]

all i can do is give my own, anecdotal evidence, but i am not having any troubles.

have you tried changing the dl region?

[Ravynshade]

Yes I have still the same speed

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by ΛG | Ωueen ßloodlust:

Clearly for me it takes 30 minutes to download a 10GB game

Well here's the thing. It CANNOT be Steam. How so? Dead simple.

If it were a thing then EVERYONE would be getting the same, and they ain't. Ergo it's either your end or your ISp.

Now, all you can do is check out your end, obviously. So you can try the usual - clear your download cache, Makre sure your hard drive isn't over 90% full and so on, and make sure you're using a cable connection and not WiFi.

Also make sure your cables are in good shpae, not wrapped around power cables, and your router has been cold booted and it's firmware is up to date.

See if anything changes after that.

And lastly remember internet speed IS NOT the limiting factor with downloads on Steam. As downloads are encrypted and compressed it's down to I/O, RAM, CPU, hard drive and more. And all games behave differently too.

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I can download gta v in 38 minutes. And it's a 100gb game.

[Ravynshade]

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

Originally posted by ΛG | Ωueen ßloodlust:

Clearly for me it takes 30 minutes to download a 10GB game

Well here's the thing. It CANNOT be Steam. How so? Dead simple.

If it were a thing then EVERYONE would be getting the same, and they ain't. Ergo it's either your end or your ISp.

Now, all you can do is check out your end, obviously. So you can try the usual - clear your download cache, Makre sure your hard drive isn't over 90% full and so on, and make sure you're using a cable connection and not WiFi.

Also make sure your cables are in good shpae, not wrapped around power cables, and your router has been cold booted and it's firmware is up to date.

See if anything changes after that.

And lastly remember internet speed IS NOT the limiting factor with downloads on Steam. As downloads are encrypted and compressed it's down to I/O, RAM, CPU, hard drive and more. And all games behave differently too.

Funny because it ain't me or my ISP. So it has to be steam even my ISP said it was because they called the PUD and there's nothing wrong at all. So it's steams end.

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by ΛG | Ωueen ßloodlust:

Funny because it ain't me or my ISP. So it has to be steam even my ISP said it was because they called the PUD and there's nothing wrong at all. So it's steams end.

Try the usual troubleshooting, that is a couple different content servers.

[Cathulhu]

If there were a widespread issue with downloading, this forum would be entirely unusable and flooded with threads upon threads.

[Ravynshade]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Originally posted by ΛG | Ωueen ßloodlust:

Funny because it ain't me or my ISP. So it has to be steam even my ISP said it was because they called the PUD and there's nothing wrong at all. So it's steams end.

Try the usual troubleshooting, that is a couple different content servers.

Where would I troubleshoot?

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by ΛG | Ωueen ßloodlust:

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

Well here's the thing. It CANNOT be Steam. How so? Dead simple.

If it were a thing then EVERYONE would be getting the same, and they ain't. Ergo it's either your end or your ISp.

Now, all you can do is check out your end, obviously. So you can try the usual - clear your download cache, Makre sure your hard drive isn't over 90% full and so on, and make sure you're using a cable connection and not WiFi.

Also make sure your cables are in good shpae, not wrapped around power cables, and your router has been cold booted and it's firmware is up to date.

See if anything changes after that.

And lastly remember internet speed IS NOT the limiting factor with downloads on Steam. As downloads are encrypted and compressed it's down to I/O, RAM, CPU, hard drive and more. And all games behave differently too.

Funny because it ain't me or my ISP. So it has to be steam even my ISP said it was because they called the PUD and there's nothing wrong at all. So it's steams end.

Wrong.

Logic does not work like that.

You CANNOT know if it's your ISP for a start as you have no access to check their stuff. You have their word and that's it.

But it CANNOT be Steam because quite simply if it were EVERYONE would get the same service, and yet we don't. So it can't just see you and go "aha it's THAT user, we';ve slow it down for them" - do you realise how silly that sounds?

The fact is that it cannot be Steam. So as I said all you can do is check what you do have at your fingertips, and again until you check what I've asked you to check you CANNOT assume it's all good.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by ΛG | Ωueen ßloodlust:

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Try the usual troubleshooting, that is a couple different content servers.

Where would I troubleshoot?

Already posted details on this. Start with checking the usual. Start with changing from Wifi to cable, if you can. Then check your cables, make sure they're not tangled round power cables. Then go to your router and make sure it's cold rebooted and the firmware is up to date.

After that you can focus on your system itself. As Steam downloads are encrypted and compressed, you need to make sure your I/O, RAM, CPU, hard drive et al are not being hit hard.

So you can check two things - the steam downloads page and check the graph there at the top to watch what's happening, and Task Manager under Windows. As all resources will be used, you can see which if any are being hit hardest. If one or more is, that's your bottleneck.

[Ravynshade]

That's another thing I've never had this problem 2 months ago and it was working fine but for some reason it started dropping everything is up to date. Nothing wrong with my cables or WiFi. Nothing technology wise is wrong ISP even said it's not the router or cables.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by ΛG | Ωueen ßloodlust:

That's another thing I've never had this problem 2 months ago and it was working fine but for some reason it started dropping everything is up to date. Nothing wrong with my cables or WiFi. Nothing technology wise is wrong ISP even said it's not the router or cables.

ISP CANNOT check your router much, or cables.

So have you done as I suggested? Never assume, but check.

[Ravynshade]

Yes I have 5 times