Download Throttling Isn't Quite Working Right

[BrawlerGamma]

My internet here isn't exactly great, so when I let stuff download, it chugs the entire network for everyone, and it's rarely even fast enough to be worth it, so I throttle the download speed a lot. Starting a few months ago, for no reason I can discern, Steam has started to, seemingly at random, interpret the limit I set it to as double that. I can sit here and stare at, with the set limit posted above it as it downloads at twice that rate. And then, as suddenly as it happened, it goes back to normal. And then starts up again. At completely inconsistent intervals. I don't know what's happening, but I know this isn't how it's supposed to work, and it'd decidedly inconvenient.

[Brujeira]

Disregard what you’re seeing as it’s misleading. I regularly get speed spikes of 100 mbps on a 50 mbps connection which is obviously nonsense.

The data is probably being buffered somewhere in your network and then being sent on in one big chunk. That would certainly cause the difference.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/0/1813170373214104776/

[BrawlerGamma]

Originally posted by Brujeira:

Disregard what you’re seeing as it’s misleading. I regularly get speed spikes of 100 mbps on a 50 mbps connection which is obviously nonsense.

The data is probably being buffered somewhere in your network and then being sent on in one big chunk. That would certainly cause the difference.

Except, it's not spikes. It'll just be going at that speed for a while. This current one has been at double the limit for hours, at least every time I've looked, with no significant dips in the graph. And if I set it to a speed that double that would eat up all of the low-ass bandwidth we have... well, there's no bandwidth left, and everything else slows to a crawl. So pardon me if I don't think that's it.

[Brujeira]

I see that the ever reliable Hotsauce has linked you to the relevant bug report. I also see that it’s been going on for a few months now and is probably likely to drag on for a while longer too.

Cursed Valve Time.