Download speeds only half compared to Origin and Blizzard clients

[SanctumVenenum]

I have a 1GB fiber connection and both Origin and Blizzard get download speeds reaching 100mb/sec while steam has a hard time reaching half and only gets to the halfway point really slowly.
Important information:
- I recently moved from Sweden to Iceland but I have changed to the correct region in my settings.
- Windows 10
- My ISP has no known issues with Steam

Any thoughts and ideas are welcome.

[Supafly]

What speeds are you getting on Steam? Keep in mind Steam defaults to showing speed as MB not mb.

[Phantom]

There is no 'correct' download region.

Content servers can get congestion at any time.

Servers that are even FURTHER away from you may have less congestion and be better.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?&ref=9498-WPDF-3220

Note that there's a clear discrepancy between MB/s and Mb/s.

[SanctumVenenum]

I know the difference between MB and mb. I get between 300 and 500 while I reach near 1000 on Origin and Blizzard. I've had this issue on different times during the day/week since I've moved. No one else I know here has this problem. And I have changed to US and Norway and Sweden, it doesn't help, the distance is too great.

[Phantom]

Keep changing your content servers - to ones further away from you as well.

There are many things that screw up downloads on Steam (on your end).

AV software and notorious for doing this.

[XistenZ]

Opprinnelig skrevet av SanctumVenenum:

I know the difference between MB and mb. I get between 300 and 500 while I reach near 1000 on Origin and Blizzard. I've had this issue on different times during the day/week since I've moved. No one else I know here has this problem.

Then make up your mind lol. In your first post you said you have 8000Mb/s and get a whopping 100 of those in downloadspeeds from other services and seemed content with that, yet complaining that steam only get 4000Mb/s.

In this last post you give completely different information.

[Supafly]

Opprinnelig skrevet av SanctumVenenum:

I know the difference between MB and mb. I get between 300 and 500 while I reach near 1000 on Origin and Blizzard. I've had this issue on different times during the day/week since I've moved. No one else I know here has this problem. And I have changed to US and Norway and Sweden, it doesn't help, the distance is too great.

You may know the difference but your post leaves me beliving you don't or are just confusing the information you have provided. You mix your descriptions of speeds in your intial post. 1GB then say Blizzard and Origin get 100mb/s.

1GB = 8000mb
So Blizzard and Origin are giving you 100mb/s which is just over 1% of what your ISP gives you and if Steam is half that that is approx 0.5% of what your ISP plan is.

[SanctumVenenum]

It isnt hard people. I mix up writing MB and mb but I know the difference in how it is shown in numbers. Let me make it easier for you to understand. I pay for 1000. I reach that with Blizzard and Origin but not Steam (max 500). I change it even in the settings in Steam to see the difference in MB and mb which I dont do in Origin and Blizzard so it shows the "low number". Stop wasting so much time hanging on to this detail. I'm not misreading it.

[SanctumVenenum]

https://imgur.com/gMqc7hl

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[wuddih]

i recommend using the whole word instead of the abbreviation.
bit
byte

as a general conduct:
you use bit for measuring transmission speed
you use byte for measuring data sizes

the incompetence of the average user drove ui designers to display transmission speeds in bytes, which to me since 20 years, makes no sense at all. i know what i pay my isp for. it is dumbfoundedly easier to see how much a transmission saturates my connection if it was displayed in bits but the average peasant doesn't seem to think that way. so you see bytes everywhere.

blizzard uses byte as well as steam does (as the default setting). blizzard just has a completely different method of downloading. Steams method has advantages in terms of size, blizzards has advatanges in terms of speed.

with a gbit connection you have a luxury problem .... it is in cases of downloading to a normal physical hdd no longer the bottleneck of your download. your hdd is and in case of Steam also your cpu can be a bottleneck for the download because the decompression and filechecks Steam does are heavily cpu-sided. blizzard doesn't do that.

so check for these bottlenecks and with a high bandwidth connection and normal day behavior, the "correct" download region on Steam is never in your own country.

[SanctumVenenum]

Thank you.
I'm downloading to a Toshiba Q300 SSD and my CPU is a i7-4770k.

[XistenZ]

Opprinnelig skrevet av SanctumVenenum:

It isnt hard people. I mix up writing MB and mb but I know the difference in how it is shown in numbers. Let me make it easier for you to understand. I pay for 1000. I reach that with Blizzard and Origin but not Steam (max 500). I change it even in the settings in Steam to see the difference in MB and mb which I dont do in Origin and Blizzard so it shows the "low number". Stop wasting so much time hanging on to this detail. I'm not misreading it.

Well correct information is pretty important when troubleshooting, so when you deliberately give out false information that is of utmost importance that it is correct, then I must say that you're the one wasting time. Just something you might want to consider next time.

[JimDeadlock]

Regardless of anything else, you're able to download stuff from Steam at lightning speeds that almost every other Steam user would be envious of. Having to wait 5 minutes for something is hardly anything to complain about really, is it? This thread is ridiculous.

[SanctumVenenum]

Opprinnelig skrevet av XistenZ:

Opprinnelig skrevet av SanctumVenenum:

It isnt hard people. I mix up writing MB and mb but I know the difference in how it is shown in numbers. Let me make it easier for you to understand. I pay for 1000. I reach that with Blizzard and Origin but not Steam (max 500). I change it even in the settings in Steam to see the difference in MB and mb which I dont do in Origin and Blizzard so it shows the "low number". Stop wasting so much time hanging on to this detail. I'm not misreading it.

Well correct information is pretty important when troubleshooting, so when you deliberately give out false information that is of utmost importance that it is correct, then I must say that you're the one wasting time. Just something you might want to consider next time.

Agreed. I was in a bad mood when I replied as well as making that post. I should have taken the time to look up the correct terminology, then this misunderstanding wouldn't have happened.

[SanctumVenenum]

Opprinnelig skrevet av JimDeadlock:

Regardless of anything else, you're able to download stuff from Steam at lightning speeds that almost every other Steam user would be envious of. Having to wait 5 minutes for something is hardly anything to complain about really, is it? This thread is ridiculous.

It's not about the waiting time, it's getting the most out of the connection I pay for. Which I do when I compare it to other game clients. I've reached those speeds in other places I've lived.