What the HELL are these download graphs about, on a 100 megabit connection no less!

[kaMMakaZZi9]

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http://oi68.tinypic.com/34s3tpc.jpg (WTF!?!?!?!)

Speedtest.net shows 118 Mbps download speeds and 12 Mbps upload...

The other day I installed a game and the graph was MOSTLY topped off at 14.8 MB/s while I downloaded some games.... but it does this thing where it goes to 0 Kb/s ... and just fluctuates anywhere in between. With the stopping and starting.

The HDD is only a month old: Seagate Barracuda 2TB HDD 7200 SATA III 6G/s speeds. It's NOT the HDD or my internet.

WHAT IS THIS?

[Snapjak]

Green bar = disk usage. Your disk is being accessed and no new info is being downloaded.

Basically Steam is unpacking/decrypting/copying/whatevering the chunks it has before it gets new chunks.

[kaMMakaZZi9]

But a lot of times I see SMOOTH tall bars that download consistently at my top speeds... 14 - 14.8 MB/s...

[Snapjak]

It depends on the game. Payday 2 for example is notorious for doing what you're seeing.
Download > disk > disk > 5 hours disk > download > disk > disk > sigh > disk > etc

[kaMMakaZZi9]

The other night I downloaded a game where I was getting 1 gb every minutre or so.... so that I downloaded and installed a 20 GB Game in about 30 mins... the 10 extra mins because it was doing this stopping and starting crap.... but still 20 GB in 30 mins is great. Now it's just chugging along with this 9.7 GB Battleborn update... what should take 15 mins tops has already taken 21 mins and it's only downloaded 4.6 GB out of 9.7.

[Snapjak]

Pause it and try another server?

[kaMMakaZZi9]

Already tried Atlanta.. doesn't matter.

Here is more of what I expect to see:

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That's the same DL.... not changing anything. It just does RANDOM SH!T and it's pissing me off.

9.7 gb update.... on a 100 megabit connection (that's 14.8 MB/s) and it started at 9:18 PM EST and it's 9:55 PM EST and STILL NOT DONE.

Now it's doing this:

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It's been just a green line moving in odd directions for the past 10 minute or so... 0 KB/s.

[Air]

This is normal and has nothing to do with your connection or Steam's servers. Game downloads and updates are usually compressed to some degree, some games are compressed more than others. In terms of games which are heavily compressed (such as Path of Exile), you may see only a liitle network activity and a lot of disk activity, due to the nature of uncompressing the updates.

I believe Steam used to have a "waiting for disk" status. Not sure what happened to that.

[Big Boom Boom]

Still on HDD? That's why it's so slow.

[[☥] - CJ -]

You are aware that if a lot of people are downloading the update that the servers may be at their peak usage which would account for slow/minimal speeds correct?

Also as said, any data your HDD has to do regarding the update may slow it down as well.
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In short
Your connection speed doesnt matter if the server you are getting the update from is overloaded.

[Supafly]

Just because you have a 100mbps connect does not mean Steam or any other content provider will meet it all of the time, hell they might never meet it. It all depends on their servers work load, their ISP, servers, hubs, signal boosters, cables etc between you and them including any faults being fixed and re-routing done.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Updates can take longer cause it must take the original file, open it, inject the new files and repackage it and move it back to game folder.

For games like CSGO, DOTA2, TF2, PayDay2, when they have somewhat large updates; it's usually quicker (if your ISP speed is decent) to just remove the game and redownload the whole game fresh again, that way you get the whole game already updated; and believe it or not, generally quicker for games such as those.

14MB is about all u will ever get on 100mbit connection

[JAMES ♥♥♥♥♥♥]

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