Steam games drop network to 1%

[Tont]

My wifi is completely fine and working, I can get 20 ping on Ookla speed test on my computer and can download games on steam at 3mbps after turning off and on my connection. I can also play games on other sites such as Valorant, League of Legends, Minecraft, etc. On task manager it will normally use around 42% while downloading something.

But as SOON as I load up a game on steam like CSGO, TF2, Sea of Thieves, it will drop my network on task manager to 1% and will be using around 0.1mbps on each app. I’ve tried everything it feels like.. with no prevail. I’ve looked at so many forums but no one seems to have this exact problem.

Things that i’ve tried (i cant list all because i forgot some oops :) )

making firewall exceptions
using cmd
restarting everything
updating drivers for my adapter
updating windows
doing things in device manager
uninstalling and reinstalling steam
registry

and a lot more. (sorry for the lack of detail, this is my first computer so I don’t know much but im learning a lot and forgot the little parts)

Any help would be greatly appreciated :D but for the time being im just going to have to stick with not using steam :( or searching for other solutions and hoping they work.

[Blaquicat]

Gaming using Source or GoldSRC engines don't requires a lot of bandwidth ..

The Default rate for CS:Go (the more demanding source game) is only 196608 bytes/s which is 192kb/s or even 0.187mb/s (megabytes)

Gaming on wifi is well know for bad latency, you have 20 ping on speedtest while i have 1.

Its not about how much data you can carry (bandwidth) but how fast those little packets can travel (speed)

edit: also, the speed show on the task manager is the network speed, not the actual internet speed.

[Iceira]

See steam CSGO cmd line option. ( google it )

[Tont]

Okay, thank you all for the replies. Since my original post ive tried to fresh restart the computer and ethernet, both have the same problem. Also I didn’t really post the problem accurately, my bad. It’s become a problem on any game, minecraft included.

I dont think its my internet being too slow because when i run a speed test i can get 15 ping and 50mbps on ethernet (really good here in AUS) but in any game i run it drops to 1000 ping and 0.1mbps because it will just refuse to receive and send any data, i have videos of it and also of a game and a browser running at the same time where the browser doing a speed test gets 50% network usage on task manager and is at like 15-40mbps and the game im running is underneath it at 0.1mbps and using either 0 or 1% usage. I’ve troubleshooted everything and nothing is wrong apparently. It’ll also only use 0.1mbps on discord and spotify but they still work fine, my discord just says im around 300-700 ping though.

Any help or suggestions is appreciated, I’m thinking about just taking it to get checked by an IT person.

[Blaquicat]

Did you tried with an ethernet cable?

Did you read what i posted earlier? Its not an issue gaming using less bandwidth, ping is based on SPEED, not bandwidth, a 10mb internet can have better ping than 100mb internet on some cases.

[Tont]

Yeah i’ve tried using an ethernet cable but the exact same problem occurs and then 5min later it stopped working entirely, and my computer wont pick up my usb adapter as an adapter anymore, so i just dont have any internet full stop.

[Dave]

Did you manage to solve it? Have the same issue currently

[Yuki]

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