Download speed stuck at 1.2 MB/s

[Deww]

My download speed seems to be capped at 1.2 MB/s while the usual download speed is around 7-8 MB/s.

I'm using a cable to connect to the internet, I've cleared download cashe, tried changing the download region, removed all of the download limitations in settings, turned off firewall and anything else that could be throttleing my connection. Downloads from non-steam sites are hitting 7 MB/s speeds.

Any ideas how I could fix this?

[Supafly]

Steam downloads in compressed chunks, once a chunk is down it gets decompressed and installed. If the CPU and/or drive is at or near 100% the DL will slow and may even stop until the decompress and install is complete.

Open Task manager and see what CPU and the Drives usage % is at when this happens

[Deww]

Originally posted by Supafly:

Steam downloads in compressed chunks, once a chunk is down it gets decompressed and installed. If the CPU and/or drive is at or near 100% the DL will slow and may even stop until the decompress and install is complete.

Open Task manager and see what CPU and the Drives usage % is at when this happens

CPU is at 8%, drive is at 0-1%; 1,2MB/s speed is constant and does not fluctuate

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Here what comes to mind, if the download reports low disk usage, low cpu usage from task manager, and download fixed, and won't go beyond 1.2MBps / 9.6Mbps, then either bad usb wifi adapter, loose ethernet cable, network need to be flushed via CMD, modem & router need a reboot, or router having a problem try direct connection to modem instead, forgot you mess with download speed limit via settings, or using 3rd party app that limit download speed, or your internet plan is that bad.

[Elucidator]

So here is the entire package of what I think you can do:

- Investigate what is going on.
- Read the logs (content_log.txt)
- Use TCP Optimizer. (at least use it to turn of network throttling)
- Change DNS (quad 9, cloudflare, etc. pick one that is good.)
- Reset your IP (netsh winsock reset, netish ip reset, ipconfig /release, ipconfig /flushdns, ipconfig /renew)
- run sfc /scannow (followed by windows update) and complete it. (if it fails, run dism /Online /CleanupImage /RestoreHealth; if that fails, run chkdisk)
- Check your software: dragon / killer network has software that autotunes internet usage, limiting speed.
- Check your device's write speed (use crystaldiskmark)
- If you have a WD NVMe SSD, then disable Write Caching on the Device (setting)
- Disable search indexing on any SSD. (it slows them down)
- Run network Troubleshooter.
- Install Malwarebytes Antimalware and let it scan your system

[Deww]

Thank you all!

It looks like my ethernet cable gave out. I changed it and the download speed shot back up to usual