Download speed on steam unstable

[Ribeiro]

Hi everyone,

Currently i have been getting really unstable download speed on steam. I have a 1Gb network connected via ethernet to my computer, which has a 5600x and a 1tb ssd m.2.

I have steam installed on the ssd and when i try to download a game it goes from 0 to 100 mb/s for about 5 seconds and then crashes back to 0 mb/s and stays like that for a while

Screenshot of the issue: https://imgur.com/a/2q1m2UX

Does anyone have the same issue, and if so, any solution to this problem?

Thanks :)

[Crotou]

Hi, same problem here. It seems Steam servers have a problem..

[Mental]

Same issure

[scififan42]

Same with me these past few days...

[crunchyfrog]

Do note that every time there is a large sale on , it's not just DURING the sale that the download servers get hit but for a couple of weeks afterwards they also do.

So what you're seeing is likely this effect. Where people have bought the games in the sale and are now furiously downloading them.

Remember though you can always change download region. It is NOT like online gaming where you need to be worried about ping. So you can choose ANYWHERE in the world, in fact the further away can be better, because if you choose a country where ost people are asleep, then it ain't that busy.

I typically go to google and find where in the world is around 2 to 4 am at that pointin time and pick any of those countries.

[Iceira]

Check task manager aka ( windows resources manager ) if disk is busy at 100% thats why network throttle , you cant keep up with handle the data , network work as intended.

Some even suggest turn off write behide cache, but technicaly its not a steam issue its user that dont know own bottlenecks. ( the you buff up to much data pc can only write it to disk, that mean you are weakest link. most know that explanations. ) technicaly you might want a total free drev to handle temp files, aka we other learn this in the past with norton ncache2 wait for disk to write its data.

gl with understand bottleneck you cant buffer up and write same time on same disk is another way to say it. ( you just ½ your performance ) same as double copy in past windows OS dont make it go faster. ( alot of old ways here ) nothing new

[Ribeiro]

Thanks for all the help everyone, i discovered what the issue was. My SSD was a WD Blue SN570, and apparently it has an issue with steam. The solution was to use the SSD software and disable "Windows Write Cache". After that i got consistently good download speeds, only bottlenecked by the internet connection.

[crunchyfrog]

Ribeiro の投稿を引用：

Thanks for all the help everyone, i discovered what the issue was. My SSD was a WD Blue SN570, and apparently it has an issue with steam. The solution was to use the SSD software and disable "Windows Write Cache". After that i got consistently good download speeds, only bottlenecked by the internet connection.

Good to know =- thanks for feeding that back as it can help others in future.

Glad you got it sorted.