Infamous Speed Issues

[GenRUKUS]

Good evening, folks. I have been working my tail off to try and figure out why my download speeds on Steam are so slow. This is exclusively on Steam. Origin, GOG, and Epic are fine.

I work for the ISP I also use, so I have done everything on the backend to verify speeds to my router. I have run several Ookla speed tests with perfect speeds. I have 1Gb/s up and down as my provisioned speeds. Likewise, I am showing at most a download of 9MB/s. I am aware of the B/b difference, but that still only makes it about 87Mb/s which is nowhere near a gig.

I found this previous thread and tried every damn thing I saw on there with no fix. I'm stumped at this point. Does Steam just throttle download speeds for no reason? Below I'm linking the old thread. I'll even post the steps I tried at the bottom to be super safe. I'm about at pulling my hair out.

Thanks in advance!


https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/6756004301612039682/

Ensure you didn't set any download limit via Steam settings.

- Clear download cache via Steam settings.

- Change download server to whole another country from another region via Steam settings. (tried 10)

- Restart modem and/or router by unplugging it power, then plug it back in after a minute. If it works then means modem and/or router has issue, and just needed a restart.


- If using custom firewall, pi hole, or etc, and blocking thing could affect things, might want to look into that.

- Flushing your network might fix things, open command promt as admin, and give this a try, then restart PC and test, do things in order.

CMD:
netsh winsock reset
netsh int ip reset

ipconfig /release
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /renew

- Redownload Steam client, head to where you install Steam, go into folder, delete everything except for "Steamapp" folder, and "Steam.exe" file, once done run Steam.exe see if issue resolved.
-Disabled NetworkThrottlingIndex.
-Went to my network adapter in Device Manager to verify none of the limitation/energy saver settings were on.
-Network Settings to verify no limitations to download speeds set there.

[r0llinlacs]

you forgot one step

- write letter to Steam HQ and tell them to stop being scared of paying for bandwidth

because that's the problem. it isn't us. or our internet. or our computers. or some buried setting. it's STEAM. everything about the Steam download process is designed to save them internet bandwidth and it severely and negatively affects the end user experience. If you have gigabit internet good luck downloading to an HDD because Steam is going to throttle you to your HDDs random write speeds. If you install to a 5000MB/s SSD with a gigabit connection, good luck because Steam's servers suck anyways.

[Rin]

Ask your commie ISP to stop throttling Steam. That is the majority of the US btw. Commies voted for Net Neutrality and everyone got what they wanted.