Slow downloads (this only happens to me on Steam)

[RaydenSpawn166]

I have a PC with the following:
GPU: Zotac Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super Twin Dual Edge Fan 12GB GDDR6X PCIE 4.0 Graphics Card,
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X Raphael AM5 4.5GHz 8-Core Boxed Processor - Heatsink Not Included,
CPU Cooler: DeepCool AK620 CPU Air Cooler,
RAM: G.Skill Flare X5 Series 32GB (2 x 16) DDR5-6000 PC5-48000 CL32 Dual Channel Desktop Memory Kit F56000J3238F16GX2-FX5 - Black
Storage: WD Black SN770 2TB SSD 112L TLC NAND M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe 4.0 x4 Internal Solid State Drive & TEAMGROUP QX 4TB 3D NAND QLC 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal Solid State SSD (Read/Write Speed up to 560/500 MB/s) 1000TBW Compatible with Laptop & PC Desktop T253X7004T0C101
MOBO: MSI PRO WIFI Motherboard AMD B650 AM5 PRO B650
OS: Windows 11
PSU: Corsair RM750e 750 Watt 80 Plus Gold ATX Fully Modular Power Supply - ATX 3.0 Compatible

I connect to the internet with an Ethernet cable and everything else downloads pretty quickly, but even after uninstalling and reinstalling, trying other regions, running as admin command prompt to do the following:
netsh winsock reset
netsh int ip reset
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /renew


I live with my parents who use Xfinity and they pay for 1.2gbps download speeds, https://imgur.com/a/QL3mtBZ for proof that I get nearly 1gbps download speeds on my own PC, and for some reason I only get on steam downloads 50-200 mbps no matter what download region I try. Anyone know what I can do that I haven't already tried to get faster speeds? I play games that require at least 10-30 gigabytes per update is why I'm kind of getting annoyed with how slow it is in comparison to what I should be getting.

[RaydenSpawn166]

Elucidator eredeti hozzászólása:

RaydenSpawn166 eredeti hozzászólása:

I already disabled it do I need to do the same for my D drive? My D drive that's the 4 terabytes is the main thing I'm trying to get to be closer to what my parents pay for as that drive as games that typically get 30-60 gigabyte updates like Call of Duty games.

Is Steam installed on the D:\ drive?
If it is installed on the C:\ drive, it is possible it is downloading to both C:\ and D:\ causing a slowdown. Just saying.

Also apparently my advise for you doubled your download speed. What the heck do they do to modern systems, I wonder...

Try downloading a normal file from a website and see if that reaches 1Gb download speed. Because, what I saw from the speedtest is that even a test doesn't reach the max download speed, so I wonder about a normal download. If a normal download reaches near max speed, then we have fixed more than you're realizing.

If it doesn't reach max download speed, it could be an issue with the router.

Here: a couple of test files. https://ash-speed.hetzner.com/

Keep in mind that MB is 1/8 of mbit
There are 8 megabits in 1 MegaByte, so... 1Gbit/s = 125MB/s

I tried on websites with downloads more than 1 gb and idk if it's the website or what it is, I'm downloading at 45-75 megabytes per second.

[Elucidator]

RaydenSpawn166 eredeti hozzászólása:

I tried on websites with downloads more than 1 gb and idk if it's the website or what it is, I'm downloading at 45-75 megabytes per second.

Then it isn't local to just Steam.
Its wider spread.

Can you test your internet speed using different sites as well?
https://speed.cloudflare.com/

And yeah, its more common that there is an advertised speed which is different from the actual downloading speed of a file, even when you should have max speed when downloading said file.

And can you maybe try this?
https://one.one.one.one/
(It .... acts as a pseudo vpn, so it cloaks your packets till they arrive at cloudflare and then continue on the internet.)
Perhaps your ISP is throttling you for whatever reason. If so, this tool could bypass it.

(I am referring to cloudflare a lot in this case, because I know Steam is partnered up with cloudflare, so cloudflare should be able to maximize your download speed.)


Edit:

That site with the 3 files I showed, are files stored on the Hetzner Data Center. They should be downloadable with max speed. There is also this site: https://testfile.org/
which ... claims they can offer max download speed as well per file.
Anyway, .... it starts to sound like you may need to ask the Internet Access Provider Xfinity about it, because its very odd you can't even achieve 900mbit/s on a regular file download, even though the ookla speed test gets there.

Here's a file from Microsoft's Datacenters (github)
https://github.com/szalony9szymek/large
This diffidently should max out your download speed. (and be on your computer in 18 seconds)
(2GB == 16Gbit, so you expect a bit of a download connection startup delay of a few seconds and then max speed, which is why it isn't 13 seconds, but slightly more.)

[RaydenSpawn166]

Elucidator eredeti hozzászólása:

RaydenSpawn166 eredeti hozzászólása:

I tried on websites with downloads more than 1 gb and idk if it's the website or what it is, I'm downloading at 45-75 megabytes per second.

Then it isn't local to just Steam.
Its wider spread.

Can you test your internet speed using different sites as well?
https://speed.cloudflare.com/

And yeah, its more common that there is an advertised speed which is different from the actual downloading speed of a file, even when you should have max speed when downloading said file.

And can you maybe try this?
https://one.one.one.one/
(It .... acts as a pseudo vpn, so it cloaks your packets till they arrive at cloudflare and then continue on the internet.)
Perhaps your ISP is throttling you for whatever reason. If so, this tool could bypass it.

(I am referring to cloudflare a lot in this case, because I know Steam is partnered up with cloudflare, so cloudflare should be able to maximize your download speed.)


Edit:

That site with the 3 files I showed, are files stored on the Hetzner Data Center. They should be downloadable with max speed. There is also this site: https://testfile.org/
which ... claims they can offer max download speed as well per file.
Anyway, .... it starts to sound like you may need to ask the Internet Access Provider Xfinity about it, because its very odd you can't even achieve 900mbit/s on a regular file download, even though the ookla speed test gets there.

Here's a file from Microsoft's Datacenters (github)
https://github.com/szalony9szymek/large
This diffidently should max out your download speed. (and be on your computer in 18 seconds)
(2GB == 16Gbit, so you expect a bit of a download connection startup delay of a few seconds and then max speed, which is why it isn't 13 seconds, but slightly more.)

Ok, now I'm getting more download speed on steam than I am my own browser and other stuff.

Also, I used this link you linked: https://speed.cloudflare.com still am getting 584 Mbps download and 39.6 Mbps upload.

[Elucidator]

RaydenSpawn166 eredeti hozzászólása:

Also, I used this link you linked: https://speed.cloudflare.com still am getting 584 Mbps download and 39.6 Mbps upload.

584Mbits/s is equal to 73MB/s
so it basically does max out your download speed indeed.

You said steam was downloading about that same speed, right?

So... yeah, we did basically fix your speed. Steam's download speed is now your 'given' download speed.
But at the same time we can tell something is preventing you from running at 1.2Gbit/s, like everywhere.
It could be temporary, but I don't think it is entirely. You need to check the router. If that is not it, I'd say ask your ISP (xfinity).
You pay for 1.2Gbits, so this is very odd.


The upload speed is still 40Mbits/s, so that remains unchanged.
I am guessing the ISP simply throttles your download speed at the moment, but I do not know why. Perhaps you're sharing bandwidth with other people or something, which is odd, but at any rate, I don't think we can do anything else here.
They're not selectively throttling you based on activity. They are simply throttling you and hope you don't notice, from what I am guessing here, based on what you shared.

I hope for you its just them running maintenance; though normally you're then temporarily completely cut off instead of being throttled.



Edit:
In case you want to double check, test stuff, etc.
I'll explain how you can undo everything we did here:

You can reset all the settings to the Realtek Driver simply by reinstalling it. (First download the driver from MSI's website (look up your motherboard, and then downloads for it) before doing this.)

The registry changes can simply be removed.
The DNS change can be undone.
The rest should be self explanatory. You can uninstall what you installed, etc.

I do not think it will reveal any change, but feel free to test if you want to.
The changes we made shouldn't influence the "Speed tests" results, because speed tests use very small packets (a couple of bytes in size, which are send over quickly, etc.)

Don't let XFinity blame you at least, if they will try that. This is clearly something they're doing.

[RaydenSpawn166]

Elucidator eredeti hozzászólása:

RaydenSpawn166 eredeti hozzászólása:

Also, I used this link you linked: https://speed.cloudflare.com still am getting 584 Mbps download and 39.6 Mbps upload.

584Mbits/s is equal to 73MB/s
so it basically does max out your download speed indeed.

You said steam was downloading about that same speed, right?

So... yeah, we did basically fix your speed. Steam's download speed is now your 'given' download speed.
But at the same time we can tell something is preventing you from running at 1.2Gbit/s, like everywhere.
It could be temporary, but I don't think it is entirely. You need to check the router. If that is not it, I'd say ask your ISP (xfinity).
You pay for 1.2Gbits, so this is very odd.


The upload speed is still 40Mbits/s, so that remains unchanged.
I am guessing the ISP simply throttles your download speed at the moment, but I do not know why. Perhaps you're sharing bandwidth with other people or something, which is odd, but at any rate, I don't think we can do anything else here.
They're not selectively throttling you based on activity. They are simply throttling you and hope you don't notice, from what I am guessing here, based on what you shared.

I hope for you its just them running maintenance; though normally you're then temporarily completely cut off instead of being throttled.



Edit:
In case you want to double check, test stuff, etc.
I'll explain how you can undo everything we did here:

You can reset all the settings to the Realtek Driver simply by reinstalling it. (First download the driver from MSI's website (look up your motherboard, and then downloads for it) before doing this.)

The registry changes can simply be removed.
The DNS change can be undone.
The rest should be self explanatory. You can uninstall what you installed, etc.

I do not think it will reveal any change, but feel free to test if you want to.
The changes we made shouldn't influence the "Speed tests" results, because speed tests use very small packets (a couple of bytes in size, which are send over quickly, etc.)

Don't let XFinity blame you at least, if they will try that. This is clearly something they're doing.

So Gbps is now gigabits per second not gigabytes per second? Also, I haven't tried changing my DNS settings yet, how do I do that?

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[RaydenSpawn166]

stoic eredeti hozzászólása:

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Huh?

[RaydenSpawn166]

This is my first ever steam forum page post. The DNS settings change, and other changes that everyone who commented has helped, I am now down to at least a reasonable speed of over 100 Mbps so I think imma close this post now. When I was on a PS4 before switching to PC, I was getting way more speed, but 100 Megabytes per second for me of download speeds is fine considering most of my games now will download updates in about 5 to 10 minutes at most in comparison to what it was originally of 30+ minutes.