Is steam download speed ever going to get better?

[theKurtiestB]

I have just under 900mbps download speed on all of the speed test sites, and a 70gb game takes me about 4 hours on steam. Any other launcher (riot, blizzard, origin, epic, any of them) will do it in about 15 minutes tops. I have changed my region, cleared cache, restarted client and computer, uninstalled steam and reinstalled it, pretty much everything that all the other forums say to do and my download constantly drops to 0 b/s. The highest it ever gets to is about 30 mb/s and even when it does that, it is for no longer than 10 seconds before dropping again. I have changed to a region multiple states away from me and it at the best will stay at 4.5 mb/s for like 20 seconds before back to 0. I am just wondering if this will ever not be a problem? The forums go back literal years and I have had this problem for literal years. If I want to download a steam game, I need to start it before I fall asleep and hope it will be done when I wake up. I pay for really good internet. Why steam, have you forsaken me?!

[nullable]

I have 1Gbps internet myself and I can hit 80-90MB/sec without a problem (I have it throttled there). Millions of users can download at those speeds and faster. And Steam doesn't have issues supplying that bandwidth.

There's other factors at work affecting your speeds. And while "other launchers download faster" is a reasonable troubleshooting step to determine if your speed everywhere is crippled. It doesn't narrow things down so that blaming Steam is the only answer, lots of people make that mistake.

Because no matter how you slice it, how are a majority of users downloading from Steam without issue, but random users like yourself seem to have crippled speed issues?

Could be ISP throttling. Some SSDs don't seem to perform well with Steam downloads and tweaking their configuration may help. There's several possibilities and solutions. But unfortunately Steam slow doesn't add up when other people don't seem to have bandwidth issues.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Just made another DL while I have a video in the other window, a game client running (idling mobs) and scrolling through the store...

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3166059201

[BJWyler]

引用自 Kurtie B：

I have just under 900mbps download speed on all of the speed test sites, and a 70gb game takes me about 4 hours on steam. Any other launcher (riot, blizzard, origin, epic, any of them) will do it in about 15 minutes tops. I have changed my region, cleared cache, restarted client and computer, uninstalled steam and reinstalled it, pretty much everything that all the other forums say to do and my download constantly drops to 0 b/s. The highest it ever gets to is about 30 mb/s and even when it does that, it is for no longer than 10 seconds before dropping again. I have changed to a region multiple states away from me and it at the best will stay at 4.5 mb/s for like 20 seconds before back to 0. I am just wondering if this will ever not be a problem? The forums go back literal years and I have had this problem for literal years. If I want to download a steam game, I need to start it before I fall asleep and hope it will be done when I wake up. I pay for really good internet. Why steam, have you forsaken me?!

The issue may not be Steam. There are plenty of potential bottlenecks between that port on your computer and the line leading into the Steam server farm. Heck, you have potential bottlenecks within the casing of your computer.

As an example, I just did speed tests on four of my systems, three of which are laptops. All are plugged into the same switch which is going directly into my router/modem. The three laptops pulled in excess of 100 Mbps in both upload and download speed. My lone desktop - the most powerful of the four systems, by the way, pulled in excess of 100 download but only 2 Mbps upload. I tried switching ports and cables with each of the systems to no avail. It turned out it was a piece of software related to the gigabit port in the computer which was hampering the upload speed.

So there is a lot of other things that can be going on that Valve/Steam has zero control over. ISPs throttling speeds to sites like Steam is a well known issue.

[Count_Dandyman]

引用自 BJWyler：

引用自 Kurtie B：

I have just under 900mbps download speed on all of the speed test sites, and a 70gb game takes me about 4 hours on steam. Any other launcher (riot, blizzard, origin, epic, any of them) will do it in about 15 minutes tops. I have changed my region, cleared cache, restarted client and computer, uninstalled steam and reinstalled it, pretty much everything that all the other forums say to do and my download constantly drops to 0 b/s. The highest it ever gets to is about 30 mb/s and even when it does that, it is for no longer than 10 seconds before dropping again. I have changed to a region multiple states away from me and it at the best will stay at 4.5 mb/s for like 20 seconds before back to 0. I am just wondering if this will ever not be a problem? The forums go back literal years and I have had this problem for literal years. If I want to download a steam game, I need to start it before I fall asleep and hope it will be done when I wake up. I pay for really good internet. Why steam, have you forsaken me?!

The issue may not be Steam. There are plenty of potential bottlenecks between that port on your computer and the line leading into the Steam server farm. Heck, you have potential bottlenecks within the casing of your computer.

As an example, I just did speed tests on four of my systems, three of which are laptops. All are plugged into the same switch which is going directly into my router/modem. The three laptops pulled in excess of 100 Mbps in both upload and download speed. My lone desktop - the most powerful of the four systems, by the way, pulled in excess of 100 download but only 2 Mbps upload. I tried switching ports and cables with each of the systems to no avail. It turned out it was a piece of software related to the gigabit port in the computer which was hampering the upload speed.

So there is a lot of other things that can be going on that Valve/Steam has zero control over. ISPs throttling speeds to sites like Steam is a well known issue.

There is also the factor that ISPs, speed tests and most site measure in bits while Steam measures in Bytes and because there are 8 bits in one byte the speed you see on Steam always looks slower but often isn't.

Combining that with how often a lot of games are designed in a way where the download will slow down or stall while waiting for your hard drive to correctly unpack and install required files and you have the main reason for the gap.

[NakiBest]

Ask your ISP?

[Mental]

I've been having download speed issues for months. Through different HDDs, SSDs, ISPs and other fun acronyms. Steam is the only platform that gives me issues. Have never found a fix. Some of us are just cursed.

[nurm1x]

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[🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊]

引用自 Kurtie B：

I have just under 900mbps download speed on all of the speed test sites, and a 70gb game takes me about 4 hours on steam. Any other launcher (riot, blizzard, origin, epic, any of them) will do it in about 15 minutes tops. I have changed my region, cleared cache, restarted client and computer, uninstalled steam and reinstalled it, pretty much everything that all the other forums say to do and my download constantly drops to 0 b/s. The highest it ever gets to is about 30 mb/s and even when it does that, it is for no longer than 10 seconds before dropping again. I have changed to a region multiple states away from me and it at the best will stay at 4.5 mb/s for like 20 seconds before back to 0. I am just wondering if this will ever not be a problem? The forums go back literal years and I have had this problem for literal years. If I want to download a steam game, I need to start it before I fall asleep and hope it will be done when I wake up. I pay for really good internet. Why steam, have you forsaken me?!

Steam doesn't need to get better. As others have demonstrated to you: Steam is not the problem. Steam can install fast with no drops in download speed. The problem is your computer and your hardware has to be fast enough to unpack / install the game while it's "Downloading". If your computer's CPU or the storage drive is slow then it's going to cause steam's download speed to stall and slow down. Upgrade to faster computer hardware and you won't have this problem.

[Spektickal]

Ok so while getting better hardware will always yield better results, this is far from the answer as most people with this problem have good hardware already.

I came across a guy online who told me to set a download limit slightly higher than what I should theoretically be capable of with my connection. Mind you our connections are measured in megabits and Steam downloads on megabytes with their download limiter using kilobytes, so make the correct conversions.

I pay for 800mbps but I often reach closer to 1gig, so I set my download limit to 1gig plus 1 kilobyte just to be sure haha.

1gig = 1000mbps = 125MBps = 125000KBps. I set download limit to 125001KBps.

My speeds went from hitting low teens to easily 100MBps immediately and my disk usage speeds shot up as well.

Try this out, you're welcome!