HELP; Steam Is Only Using 1% Of My Disk When Downloading Games

[NiGhT]

My Download speed for games is around 3MB/s and I don't know why:
- Other family members in the house, using the same internet are downloading games at around 15-18MB/s
- My Ethernet cable, when on the Task Manager --> Performance --> Ethernet is showing a Receive of around 35-40MB/s
- My Disk Usage when downloading games goes between 0-2% and Steam is taking from around 1-4MB/s

I've cleaned the disk and optimized it using the Disk Cleanup and Defragement Driver applications, why is my Disk Uasge so low and why doesn't steam use more of it?
Any Advice appreciated, thanks in advanced.

[NiGhT]

Well the ISP says it should be 200Mbps Down and 20Mbps Up. My Download on testmy.net was 16Mbps and an Upload of 8Mbps

[NiGhT]

Okay I changed my download region from London to Manchester and didn't see much of a difference but I might give my ISP a call, thanks for the help, this has narrowed down some of the things it can't be so thank you very much and I'll have to look into this further, thanks.

[MancSoulja]

Originally posted by Night-Stalker:

Okay I changed my download region from London to Manchester and didn't see much of a difference but I might give my ISP a call, thanks for the help, this has narrowed down some of the things it can't be so thank you very much and I'll have to look into this further, thanks.

Firstly, check Network and sharing centre and make sure the ethernet cable you're using is rated for 1Gbps rather than 100Mb.


Off topic: Are you on Virgin?

[NiGhT]

Is there are way to check or see what rating the cable is because I know the one from my Room to the TP-Link device is 100% a 1000Mbps but I can't remember what rating I used for the cable downstairs?


And Yeah, the new Vivid 200 thing and I'm a little pissed that it hasn't really done anything from what we had before

[NiGhT]

Okay the ethernet cable downstairs is a CAT 6 Ethernet cable which should be 1000Mbps (according to Google at least) and with regards to the testmy.net I took out the ethernet cable completely and set up my internet connection on the WiFi and got 92Mbps Download and 12Mbps Upload

[MancSoulja]

Originally posted by Night-Stalker:

Is there are way to check or see what rating the cable is because I know the one from my Room to the TP-Link device is 100% a 1000Mbps but I can't remember what rating I used for the cable downstairs?


And Yeah, the new Vivid 200 thing and I'm a little pissed that it hasn't really done anything from what we had before

True story, When I was upgraded to Vivid 200, with the new Superhub, it ran like crap, I was getting maybe 30Mb/s. I complained on the Virgin forums and we ran all sorts of test, which all said my connection was fine (Which it wasn't). Then about a month later, it all just started working properly and I get 210+ Mb/s

Anyway, if you open network and sharing centre, at the top of the screen it should say ethernet in blue, just click on that and see what it says next to speed. If it says 1Gbps. it's not your cable/

Example: http://prnt.sc/dp0be3

[MancSoulja]

Originally posted by Night-Stalker:

Okay the ethernet cable downstairs is a CAT 6 Ethernet cable which should be 1000Mbps (according to Google at least) and with regards to the testmy.net I took out the ethernet cable completely and set up my internet connection on the WiFi and got 92Mbps Download and 12Mbps Upload

So have you tried the Virgin forums? Like I said they're able to run tests and check what's going on. If something is wrong they can even organise an engineer for you.

http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Speed/bd-p/Speed

[#Rainbow Dash]

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[NiGhT]

Okay so the WiFi Status is Speed: Fluctuating between 180Mbps and 200Mbps with a signal quality 4/5 bars
The Ethernet one says speed 100Mbps not 1000Mbps,
So Downstairs from the Router to a TP-Link there's one ethernet cable, then there's the TP-Link in my room which has an ethernet cable coming out of that and going into my PC,
Now the ethernet port in my PC is a Killer E2400 Gigabit Ethernet Controller, the TP-Links have a cap of 500Mbps and the ethernet cable from the TP-Link to my PC is definitely 1000Mbps, the ethernet cable downstairs is a CAT6 ethernet cable, doesn't that mean that it is also 1000Mbps then? If that's the case then why does the Ethernet speed say 100Mbps?

[Cptn Obvious48]

i peak at 2.2 mbs when downloading from steam. my provider gets me between 17 and 18 mbs. switching the server in my area didnt help. why so low? ive seen some people on here get over 12 mbs when downloading. my buddy gets over 6 mbs. once we had 3 people downloading all sitting in the same room on the same network and server and we all had diff download speeds. what gives???

[Marcelo]

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