Does steam know its 2025 ?

[epic]

The download speeds that sssssslllllllllllllllooooooooooowwwwwwww i would think its like dial up speeds on 56K from 90s this place one hour just down load 36 gig

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Originally posted by epic:

The download speeds that sssssslllllllllllllllooooooooooowwwwwwww i would think its like dial up speeds on 56K from 90s this place one hour just down load 36 gig

Get faster internet, I and many others have zero issue with fast downloads.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by epic:

Does steam know its 2025 ?

The download speeds that sssssslllllllllllllllooooooooooowwwwwwww i would think its like dial up speeds on 56K from 90s this place one hour just down load 36 gig

Steam can saturate nearly any connection.

[Vamp]

OP's dad secretly changed the Internet subscription to a slower one and didn't tell his kid.

[Qbert ⭐]

Originally posted by Vamp:

OP's dad secretly changed the Internet subscription to a slower one and didn't tell his kid.

Nah, maybe he is having issues with wifi in the basement

[senrign]

Currently downloading RDR2 with 20 MB/s. There doesn't seem to be a problem here.

[Tito Shivan]

https://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/
I don't see them struggling, sure the issue isn't in your end?

[pckirk]

Tell your "Sister" to get off the phone, so you can restore your AOL dial up internet connection!

[BJWyler]

Originally posted by Qbert ⭐:

Originally posted by Vamp:

OP's dad secretly changed the Internet subscription to a slower one and didn't tell his kid.

Nah, maybe he is having issues with wifi in the basement

I have my wifi in the basement, and my Steam downloads are super fast. Don't even have time to finish making my sammich before a huge game finishes downloading and installing.

[Chika Ogiue]

Originally posted by BJWyler:

Don't even have time to finish making my sammich before a huge game finishes downloading and installing.

Might be a regional server thing, too. As even with installing on an SSD Steam is far slower here than it used to be on the same fibre optic connection and installing to a HDD.

[Brian9824]

I downloaded a game last night at 500mb/s.

So no issues with speed.

[Volfogg]

36GB in one hour sounds like a lot. Myself I can't even squeeze 10 Mb/s in this hellhole I live in.

[Haruspex]

Hardware and software limitations can slow your download speeds, like if you're downloading to a slow disk, or you have an old potato CPU that's struggling to unpack the compressed files. Annoyingly aggressive real-time anti virus software can also be an issue, like a club security bouncer who insists on checking every single packet for weapons before it's allowed on to your PC.

I also suspect some ISPs, while they advertise a certain speed, really they offer "up to" the advertised speed, and they may have oversold for the amount of bandwidth they actually have available. To try and curb this, they might identify and throttle certain high-bandwidth traffic so other customers in the area aren't negatively impacted, and Steam can certainly qualify as high bandwidth traffic. They (the ISP) will probably never admit to this directly though.

[CasualGamer]

I'm having the same problem too...it just happened weeks ago, checked my cable and hardware, all is fine...it seems that it's just Steam doing this.

Before it was 50+ MBps, now it's in the Kilobits...I'm so confused. Was able to confirm that it is Steam because if I download stuff from other apps, like from itch.io from Google, it's blazing fast.

Don't know what happened, but I hope Steam will take this issue seriously because, it's so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ slow.

[Fierman]

I have 1gbit fiber, and steam downloads are extremely slow in times. It's definitely a problem at Steam's end. Bandwidth is throttled at their servers, depending on demand etc. Sometimes selecting a different country in your download settings helps.

[miakisfan]

Originally posted by epic:

The download speeds that sssssslllllllllllllllooooooooooowwwwwwww i would think its like dial up speeds on 56K from 90s this place one hour just down load 36 gig

You are right. It is 2025.

You would think people would have learned the internet connection isn't the only reason there can be slow download speeds.

It doesn't need to be 2025 to know that there are plenty of people who want to blame something that doesn't make it look like their fault.

I don't have the biggest Comcast package and I get speeds of 18mb/s up into the 30mb/s range. That is on a potato Laptop with an old HDD.