Epic is overwhelmingly faster at downloading than Steam. Is it my fault?

[Pvt. Parts]

When I download something from Steam its speed goes from 2MB/s to 25MB/s without any patter that I can see. However, when I download something from EGS it just goes @ 60MB/s (bytes, not bits) for almost the whole download.

I won't either complain nor ask for better Steam servers but what can I do to improve my Steam speed? Changing server location proved useless when I tried.

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Publicado originalmente por Nx Machina:

Publicado originalmente por Snakefist:

I have 250Mb/s and everytime i download from steam i get around 28.25MB/s which is what i pay for so my downloads are not really slow.

1) megabit (Mb) or megabit per second (Mbps, Mb/s), with a small or lowercase ‘b’, a data-rate unit used for download speeds advertised by ISPs and reported by on-line tools, equal to 10002 bits (b).

2) megabyte (MB) or megabyte per second (MBps, MB/s), with a capital or uppercase ‘B’, a data-rate unit used for file sizes and often in end-user software, equal to 10002 bytes (B).

NSS. Thank you captain obvious.

[rawWwRrr]

Publicado originalmente por Snakefist:

Publicado originalmente por Nx Machina:

1) megabit (Mb) or megabit per second (Mbps, Mb/s), with a small or lowercase ‘b’, a data-rate unit used for download speeds advertised by ISPs and reported by on-line tools, equal to 10002 bits (b).

2) megabyte (MB) or megabyte per second (MBps, MB/s), with a capital or uppercase ‘B’, a data-rate unit used for file sizes and often in end-user software, equal to 10002 bytes (B).

NSS. Thank you captain obvious.

It's not as common knowledge as you may believe.

[rawWwRrr]

Publicado originalmente por Medic Enjoyer:

Changing server location proved useless when I tried.

Try others. Steam has dozens to choose from. The closest ones aren't always going to be the fastest. When I lived in Kansas City, the client would connect me to St. Louis and it was always spotty. I would change it to Dallas and it would max my connection every time.

[crunchyfrog]

Publicado originalmente por ✨Saint✨:

Yeah, I have noticed the same thing as OP, but it really uses your full connection making other things on the web kinda slow. Something I have never had on Steam.

:saint:

It really dpeends on your PC.

Steam downlads things a little differently to other clients. Games are both encrypted and compressed. So it's not dependent on your internet, but your hard drive speed, your RAM, CPU, I/O et al.

[Zombie Burger $4.99]

Nearly 1 year old but I just got to know.
What is your bandwidth you are paying for like not 250Mb for a 60MB dl speed so guessing 500 or above Mb/s
To my knowledge Steam Will use as much bandwidth as possible unless told otherwise in other setting is steam aka the bandwidth limiter option.
Yes Some games are encrypted and then decrypted on hdd/ssd and that would/could be the fluctuation seen .
Epic may be using a decentralized distribution system where steam may be relying on closest server(s)
If you still have this issue and it wasn't a seasonal thing or a sales related thing then I would delete steam main files (not the games directory) but all the main files in the main directory except for steam.exe.
Scrub all references to steam.exe from your registry ( might be a tool to automate this like the ones for drivers) just in case you made changes to these in the past and forgot.
then relaunch steam and it will download all the missing files again and pick up your games ( no need to re-install)
maybe that might help.

[JohnMars78]

Publicado originalmente por rawWwRrr:

Publicado originalmente por Snakefist:

NSS. Thank you captain obvious.

It's not as common knowledge as you may believe.

LOL That was a great little bait. JesusIsTheReasonForTheSeason's initial post, that is.
It definitely should be common knowledge for computer users.

[Zombie Burger $4.99]

People SHOULD know the difference but they don't .
Also the whole MB vs mb or mB vs mb.. differs also when talking about speed (internet) vs ram vs Hdd/ssd Space
Ex tech. heard people talking about their machine had XXX GB so should be able to run XYZ but they only had 4-8gb ram
Anyway this isn't about that it's about what the inital Op has as internet speed.
everything else is just meh

[ReBoot]

Publicado originalmente por Zombie Burger $2.99:

Ex tech. heard people talking about their machine had XXX GB so should be able to run XYZ but they only had 4-8gb ram

Hell, I remember a nutjob claiming that all DX9 capable graphics cards are the same in terms of performance.

[RiO]

Publicado originalmente por Zombie Burger $2.99:

People SHOULD know the difference but they don't .
Also the whole MB vs mb or mB vs mb.. differs also when talking about speed (internet) vs ram vs Hdd/ssd Space

That's a case of binary orders (increment of 1024) vs decimal orders (increment of 1000).

Hardware manufacturers and ISPs specifying MB or MB/s are using decimal order (increment of 1000) i.e. 1000 bytes = 1 kB; 1000 kB = 1 MB; etc.

Microsoft when they specify MB or MB/s uses binary order, i.e. 1024 bytes = 1 kB; 1000 kB = 1 MB; etc. Microsoft is actually in the wrong here. They are applying the wrong unit. Binary order increments are indicated in the 'gibibyte'; 'mebibyte'; and 'kibibyte' units: GiB, MiB and kiB. (Me-Bi-Byte; as in Mega Binary Byte) since the end of the 1990s.

Sadly they never modernized this and the omni-presence of the Windows OS has allowed them (and a few other companies that like to exploit and abuse it to their marketing benefit) to perpetuate that mistake to and throughout society at large. Great, ain't it?

[Washell]

Publicado originalmente por RiO:

Hardware manufacturers and ISPs specifying MB or MB/s are using decimal order (increment of 1000) i.e. 1000 bytes = 1 kB; 1000 kB = 1 MB; etc.

That's an ancient relic from an age when there were bytes in sizes other than 8 bits to byte. So they specified bits, and you'd convert it yourself to the byte size your OS or transmission protocol used. That it conveniently makes things look faster and bigger is the reason it's still alive.

[RiO]

Publicado originalmente por Washell:

Publicado originalmente por RiO:

Hardware manufacturers and ISPs specifying MB or MB/s are using decimal order (increment of 1000) i.e. 1000 bytes = 1 kB; 1000 kB = 1 MB; etc.

That's an ancient relic from an age when there were bytes in sizes other than 8 bits to byte. So they specified bits, and you'd convert it yourself to the byte size your OS or transmission protocol used. That it conveniently makes things look faster and bigger is the reason it's still alive.

No; that's the Mb (bits) vs MB (bytes) problem.
Not the MB vs MiB problem.

[Miles Deep]

I get 300 to 500 on steam and only 60 on epic games so the reverse for me I have 1gb speeds steam has always been way faster for me

[MancSoulja]

Publicado originalmente por No Way Jose:

I get 300 to 500 on steam and only 60 on epic games so the reverse for me I have 1gb speeds steam has always been way faster for me

Steam's default download units are Megabits and Epic's, Megabytes. 60 Megabytes is 480 Megabit so your download speeds are roughly the same.

[Seraphita]

My download in Steam is like 13 MB/s. While in Epic, it's 0 MB/s. It's because I don't use Epic. But seriously, Steam's download speed has always been constant for me.

P.S.: I had to remember this is the Help Section of Forums. I don't think the issue however is from steam itself. Your connection can be the issue. The trc route too, maybe.

[Muppet among Puppets]

Publicado originalmente por MancSoulja:

Publicado originalmente por No Way Jose:

I get 300 to 500 on steam and only 60 on epic games so the reverse for me I have 1gb speeds steam has always been way faster for me

Steam's default download units are Megabits and Epic's, Megabytes. 60 Megabytes is 480 Megabit so your download speeds are roughly the same.

I think both have byte unit default