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lol Jan 8, 2019 @ 2:04pm
Unstable download speeds
It's really annoying, im downloading a game at about 12 mbs, its stable for 10-20 seconds and then it slowly starts going down up until 1mbs or even below that, what do I do? I never had this issue before
below you will see what im talking about
https://imgur.com/a/6W72E3R
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Originally posted by Joseph:
I don't believe this is a Steam issue. You could try to set Steam as a high-priority process in Task Manager, as it could be the HDD or SDD being slow instead of your internet (read/write speed instead of bandwidth) or, if you truly think it's a download thing and it's Valve's fault, you could change the download location in Steam settings. To do this go to the Steam tab on the upper left, click settings, go to the downloads tab, then change the download region to a closer or different (yet still somewhat close) location.
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Joseph Jan 8, 2019 @ 2:23pm 
I don't believe this is a Steam issue. You could try to set Steam as a high-priority process in Task Manager, as it could be the HDD or SDD being slow instead of your internet (read/write speed instead of bandwidth) or, if you truly think it's a download thing and it's Valve's fault, you could change the download location in Steam settings. To do this go to the Steam tab on the upper left, click settings, go to the downloads tab, then change the download region to a closer or different (yet still somewhat close) location.
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lol Jan 8, 2019 @ 3:24pm 
Changed my download location because there was a better option and waddayaknow it actually is now much better than before, much more stable and overall way faster than it used to be
Last edited by lol; Jan 8, 2019 @ 3:25pm
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Ekion Nov 16, 2024 @ 12:13pm 
This is a steam issue. Has to be there download servers. Every other launcher on my PC downloads games perfectly fine 50 MBPS with no drops. Only steam has this issue.
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Dieter Nov 16, 2024 @ 12:59pm 
This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.
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