Easy way to ping every steam download sever at once?

[chintzamintz]

I've been searching online for an easy way to change my Steam download region according to the fastest server available. However, I haven't been able to find any info for a simple way to just ping every server from my location all at once (or actually how to ping them *at all*).

So far the only method I've been able to find is to just go down the list, download something, and see which is fastest for each setting. I can't just download something for the entire duration of this test for every single server on the list (I don't have that much data) nor do I have the patience for that (steam has to restart with every change). There's tons of options. And I can't just choose the select few that are closest to me out of pure geographical location as many others have reported their fastest speed might come from across the nation. Plus I use mobile hotspot which actually routes through servers in Houston so my actual location in OK is irrelevant.

I'd appreciate any help. Surprised no one else has either asked for this sort of method nor is there an easy solution as of yet.

[Phantom]

Certain servers are congested at certain times, and so, there isn't any best option.

There are certain things that can, in theory, throttle your downloads if you're on a relatively fast connection, and those are the things worth giving attention instead.

[chintzamintz]

Originally posted by Robin3sk:

Certain servers are congested at certain times, and so, there isn't any best option.

There are certain things that can, in theory, throttle your downloads if you're on a relatively fast connection, and those are the things worth giving attention instead.

:cozydbd:

Servers in the US should be void of congestion enough if I try it at somewhere around 4 in the morning though, right? Thinking I could look at the current overall US server usage before I run the tests too. I believe I saw Steam has graphs for this. I'd still like to see the ms difference between, say, Dallas and Washington (or wherever).

I've done searches to check the boxes on anything else that might my connection, unless you'd be willing to provide a list I can try? It's not horrible right now, just thinking it's not optimized to the best it can be. Perhaps someone else could use this info too, ya never know.

[Phantom]

Originally posted by Umbra:

Servers in the US should be void of congestion enough if I try it at somewhere around 4 in the morning though, right? Thinking I could look at the current overall US server usage before I run the tests too. I believe I saw Steam has graphs for this. I'd still like to see the ms difference between, say, Dallas and Washington (or wherever).

I've done searches to check the boxes on anything else that might my connection, unless you'd be willing to provide a list I can try? It's not horrible right now, just thinking it's not optimized to the best it can be. Perhaps someone else could use this info too, ya never know.

For the most part, the issue will be your ISP's routing to those servers.

The internet is like a bunch of streets, interconnected at what we like to call nodes.

A ton of nodes can be flop, and we're not going to forget local DNS problems.

If you were to do a ping / trace-route to any Steam server (through some method), the packets will take a certain route, and again, the results may not be as fancy as you'd expect.