Slow Downloads?

[thaddayyus]

Hi all, I have a samsung 970 plus ssd, and overall a pretty good rig + ethernet (google says my download speed is 61 mpbs and 3.74mbps upload). Only thing is, I don't know why my steam downloads are so slow. I tested a library PC on wifi compared to my PC, and it downloaded at 50 mbps, while my pc on ethernet with a high end ssd downloaded at 3 mb per second. What is going on, and what can I do to fix this?

[Elucidator]

When you say High End, I assume you have an NVMe connected SSD?

Can you test if downloading is speed up when you disable Disk Write Caching on the device?
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/21904-enable-disable-disk-write-caching-windows-10-a.html

[thaddayyus]

yes, nvme

[thaddayyus]

disk writing caching doesnt affect it

[Elucidator]

You likely have to disable NetworkThrottlingIndex to achieve the full 61mb/s
(you can use tcp optimizer to do this and perform other network tweaks)

I assume you didn't set a download speed limit in the Steam Client?

Edit: (misread a bit)
Do you know what Ethernet driver you are using? Maybe it comes with software that throttles Steam.


Edit 2: In case you want to try manually editting the Registry to disable NetworkThrottlingIndex, go to this location in regedit and edit the key shown in this same image:
https://ttcshelbyville.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/throttling.jpg


Edit 3: The ethernet cable could be bad. I'm not too sure.
Normally Ethernet is faster than wi-fi. xD
You could try another port on your router I guess.
update drivers and the router firmware, check the settings on your pc.
no clue.

[thaddayyus]

ah, ill look into that. thanks

[Elucidator]

To follow up on my last edit:

A couple of CMD commands that could maybe fix issues.

netsh winsock reset
netsh ip reset
ipconfig /release
ipconfug /flushdns
ipconfig /renew
ipconfig /registerdns

You could also try network troubleshooter.

Having a slower ethernet connection is really odd at least.