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Yeah I should've reworded the title, I know its not steams fault, what I meant to say was it only seems to be steam that's having this issue. I'm not limiting the speeds in the steam settings, but its still limited at around 4MB/sec. I'll try call up my ISP tomorrow, see if they're throttling the connection. Thanks for the suggestion
I see people constantly pointing towards hardware but I am running on a 13900k with a WD black X 4TB drive that maxes out at around 8000MB/s read/write.
Steam can obliterate 1gbps connections. Steam was pushing 50 terabytes per second during the CP2077 launch
your steam downloads are limited by
1) your cpu
2) your disk IO
3) your anti-virus
4) your ISP
I've checked these things but should have no reason this is limited. This issue started a week ago for me and it's just Steam that seems to have download issues. I've got a i9 12900K so that won't be limiting it. I've checked in task manager and nothing is being taken up a lot. Tried disabling firewall and that isn't causing anything either. I disabled my antivirus and still nothing helped. I assume it's not Steam's fault, but due to it only being on Steam I don't quite know where else to look.
Go to your Router's settings and find something called MTU and MRU, they should be already set at either 1500 or 1492. Change those parameters to 1478 and restart the router. If you have a setting named "Jumbo Frame", make sure to disable it.
I can't really tell you where these settings are because every and each router is different. If your router doesn't have those settings, you are doomed because you can't change the MRU in Windows (not to be confused with MTU). They need to be changed together in the PPPoE settings of your router for this trick to work.
If you are absolutely desperate for this, you can get a custom gaming router which allows you to change those parameters. For example, my ASUS TUF-AX6000 allows to change these parameters just fine.
After doing this, my problem disappeared.
PS: This issue was only affecting me on Linux, it was fine in Windows. For some reason, Windows managed to mitigate the issue, but I assume this is NOT always the case for everyone.
What eventually worked for me was the simplest thing ever. It was hard capped at 4MB/s. Restarted my modem, back to 100MB/s. Seems dumb, but worth a shot.
You!!! You are a legend!!! That actually worked! I could hug you, mate, thank you sooo much!