Steam is completely ignoring the throttling limit and downloads the games full speed

[76561198425262896]

This has been going on for a month and I tried different computers with different accounts. Still the same♥♥♥♥♥♥
Anyone got any ideas? Thanks

[Sen 👑]

People complain about having zero speed constantly, and you're complaining it's way too fast...

Have you tried settings?

Steam (left top of client) -> Settings -> Downloads

Under "Download Restrictions", change your bandwidth limit.

[76561198425262896]

Ok. What do you mean I'm exactly "complaining"? I literally have a trouble with the broken feature that supposed to work, and that is to lower the banwidth.

[Sen 👑]

Originally posted by RetroX912:

Ok. What do you mean I'm exactly "complaining"? I literally have a trouble with the broken feature that supposed to work, and that is to lower the banwidth.

That's what the word means. I don't mean to offend you and if I did, I apologize.

So have you tried it?

[Satoru]

Steam doesn’t throttle downloads unless you expressly set it in the client

I’ve alao never seen it where the client download speed is not adhered to

I would opt into the steam client beta if that’s an issue but it’s likely more of a local install proble

[Jerry]

I am always using the limitation feature, and so far it has always worked for me. Your issue is not a global one.
Curious to see, what's behind this. Tried different speed limits already?

[76561198425262896]

Originally posted by Loli Pop:

Originally posted by RetroX912:

Ok. What do you mean I'm exactly "complaining"? I literally have a trouble with the broken feature that supposed to work, and that is to lower the banwidth.

That's what the word means. I don't mean to offend you and if I did, I apologize.

So have you tried it?

It's fine, sorry if i misunderstood

[ReBoot]

Check out the UNIT Steam displays download speed and throttling in. It defaults to MB/s which is 8x Mb/s. ISPs usually measure in Mb/s so if you have, let's say, 25 Mb/s and set Steam to throttle to 25 MB/s, the result will be off.

[Lirili Larila]

Put a speed below the one you want. I want to limit mine to 768KB/s but my steam is ignoring it, but with 384KB/s it is limiting exactly where I want. Do some tests and find the right one for you. It is only a temporary solution but it does the job. Check eventually if the download still where you want.

[Justy]

It gets even better! Mine obeys the throttling limits for a while, but then suddenly browsing gets sluggish - and sure enough, Steam ignores the limit and goes full throttle. The funny part is, right next to the maxed out "Network usage: current" number there is the line "throttling limited to" with a much lower number that simply does not reflect reality.

[Jerry]

I think, one of the updates in May or June might have caused issues with the download speed limits; possibly earlier for beta users. There were more threads like this one since. Or as mentioned a few entries above, it might have to do with unit confusion, although it is still suspicious, that the topic has only come up repeatedly recently.