Steam UK Download Servers

[Alex Atkin UK]

I was wondering what speeds people are getting when downloading from the UK servers as I am a little disappointed. I have tried both London and Manchester, neither get close to my maximum speed.

I have 100MBit VDSL2 with speeds up to around 11.5MB/s. Steam usually manages around 4MB/s which is not awful but considering I am getting 6.2MB/s on my PS3 right now, I expected better from Steam.

[Pocahawtness]

When you say "around 4MBps" just exactly how around do you mean?

My broadband is about 38Mbps, and that equates to 4.75MBps, which is what I get. It usually runs at a fraction below that - 4.6MBps but shows peaks of up to 5.3MBps and the ocassional drop to 4.4MBps. Drops are rare. It spends most of it's time solidly on 4.6MBps. That's exactly what you would expect given my connection speed.

[Marble]

I get around 4.6MB/s, which is fine for me since my top speed is rated at 40mbit so it pretty much maxed out.

It might be worth noting that some ISP's limit speeds depending on the type of traffic it is and some Steam games download over a different port than regular http.

[Kenny32673]

I have an "up to 80Mbit" connection and usually get around 72Mbit (approx 9 MB per second I get). On Steam I usually get between 8-9 MB download speeds.

They do sometimes go slow though, in these cases I switch to the Paris, Marseille or Netherlands servers which will usually get me back to top speeds again.

I never use Manchester myself (even though that's actually where I live) because I never seem to get full speeds from it only the London server seems to get that.