FIX for Super Slow Steam Download Speed!

[MrBigFish™]

For anybody who experience suddenly slow download speed on steam, and its not going back to normal by its own.

My internet usually downloads with 6.5MB/s, but my steam downloaded with like 50-200kb/s for like 1 month now, and i tried literraly everything to fix it, but nothing work. But finnally it works now again, here is how :

- Go to your current network settings in the Control Panel
- You can see there is IPv4 and IPv6 connections.
- Go to the properties to change theese connections.
- and UNSELECT the IPv6, leave only the IPv4 connection selected.
- Press OK.

-and that was all, after that i just opened my steam (it wasnt even closed, i just opened back up)
and after like 5 seconds later, my download speed got rising instantly.

Now its back at its normal!

I hope its going to help someone!

[Atom]

thanks alot man :) helped me alot :)

[DessIntress]

thanks a lot.
hope ms or valve will fix it soon.

(btw, i had to reactivate my network card after it before i got my 24 MBits back)

[Waffles]

didnt change anything..........

[MrBigFish™]

You can find other topics for other solutions. For the other two guy, i'm glad it worked for you both :)

[Suffer Overflow]

Why the hell does this work ? No really lol .
Thank you all the same - Networking expert (Or so i thought)

[Suffer Overflow]

i was getting 89kbps . said 3 years . changed and get 65MB/s https://imgur.com/a/YJddbN5

[Nemesis]

It... worked! Nice.

[B230A]

Worked like a charm, thank you :)

[Iceira]

report it to steam support and Local ISP, just so you do know not all can do that, they run out of IPv4 adr. along time ago. ( this is not a solution and can get you into trouble with missing connect that only have IPv6 and even worse as spilt network. )

and who know maybe someday isp will cut the connection because you have disable IPv6
take this warning serious. ( there can ony be 1 adr with that IPv4, so you are already in trouble then you have issue with IPv6 )

to understand this require you have education in network or read about it.
ISP are in controll of IP Adr. this not about our own private network adr.

i could even say a steam moderator should maybe comment on it, then many do as you do, can lead to havok and perminate close of isp port to endcustomer if it goes very bad.

they need to get IPv4 and IPv6 to work as one and that is not possible then people have issue or change this themself.

so please contact own ISP and Steam support, ( maybe not a steam issue but i bet they want to know about it. )

[DONKEE]

thanks so much my guy

[Iceira]

another thread that steam should lockdown. ipv6 has to work. if you got any issue contact own ISP. ( if you turn this off you will isolated yourself from all that use ipv6 ) you could actual end up with nothing work, if next jump is ipv6 or server is.

[MrBigFish™]

I did nothing just to wrote down my way of solving the problem, since NOTHING else helped me back then.
My own settings are still the same, i haven't experienced anything wrong with it. And btw if anything goes wrong or something doesn't work, you can still just turn it back on.
I don't understand your problem with this.
I'm glad that i could help other with it.
Cheers!

[Hellspark]

Tried this and it actually worked! Thanks for your help :)
I don't care what Iceira says, you've been very helpful and as you said I can turn on IPv6 after World of Final Fantasy (WOFF) finishes downloading. All other Steam downloads were running at 6MB/s or higher but WOFF was downloading at 300KB/s or less. Your tip bumped WOFF's download speed up to 5MB/s :D

[Iceira]

Originally posted by Hellspark:

Tried this and it actually worked! Thanks for your help :)
I don't care what Iceira says, you've been very helpful and as you said I can turn on IPv6 after World of Final Fantasy (WOFF) finishes downloading. All other Steam downloads were running at 6MB/s or higher but WOFF was downloading at 300KB/s or less. Your tip bumped WOFF's download speed up to 5MB/s :D

This is because you have no clue on what a isp can do , put a new router in or server with ipv6 , and then all network is segmented, This is a a ISP and it will happend , and who said any here even think of ipv6 is running or not someday.

aslong your isp dont use ipv6 it will work. but you still dont get it, ipv4 adr. run out aged ago , and you cant connect to all them ipv6 device without it , so you already start to have segment network.

maybe no one should be hard on you and your outdate knowledge, this has nothing to do with me, this is your isp. and you that actual make a problem. ( and its your isp that dont follow the new ways, they can be so hard and say not isp problem you turn it off, ( funny part here see what happend if you remove ipv4 , sure you get that no network, how come you think remove ipv6 is any diffrence. ( this will be seen as your problem, no matter if your ISP has enable it or not or give you trouble with it now then they dont use it. )

this is a friendly warning , im sure you get the bill, for it, if isp tech someday have to faulthy find on it at your location then you have forgot about it. ( this is not a joke, you waste isp time for own mistake ) they have clear lines of such. ( do contact own isp with it. ) no matter what.
ipv4 adr. run out a decad ago. ( many server is have only ipv6 now. ) that dont mean every tech person has run into such problem.

gl with it.

[Iceira]

Originally posted by Iceira:

Originally posted by Hellspark:

Tried this and it actually worked! Thanks for your help :)
I don't care what Iceira says, you've been very helpful and as you said I can turn on IPv6 after World of Final Fantasy (WOFF) finishes downloading. All other Steam downloads were running at 6MB/s or higher but WOFF was downloading at 300KB/s or less. Your tip bumped WOFF's download speed up to 5MB/s :D

This is because you have no clue on what a isp can do , put a new router in or server with ipv6 , and then all network is segmented, This is a a ISP and it will happend , and who said any here even think of ipv6 is running or not someday.

aslong your isp dont use ipv6 it will work. but you still dont get it, ipv4 adr. run out aged ago , and you cant connect to all them ipv6 device without it , so you already start to have segment network.

maybe no one should be hard on you and your outdate knowledge, this has nothing to do with me, this is your isp. and you that actual make a problem. ( and its your isp that dont follow the new ways, they can be so hard and say not isp problem you turn it off, ( funny part here see what happend if you remove ipv4 , sure you get that no network, how come you think remove ipv6 is any diffrence. ( this will be seen as your problem, no matter if your ISP has enable it or not or give you trouble with it now then they dont use it. )

this is a friendly warning , im sure you get the bill, for it, if isp tech someday have to faulthy find on it at your location then you have forgot about it. ( this is not a joke, you waste isp time for own mistake ) they have clear lines of such. ( do contact own isp with it. ) no matter what.
ipv4 adr. run out a decad ago. ( many server is have only ipv6 now. ) that dont mean every tech person has run into such problem.

gl with it.

ps.
this is a senario, that has been debat with test labs on gear use ipv6, problem is im sure things will not be so gentle down the road the cost and faulty finding on the real world.