WHY DOES STEAM COMPLETELY IGNORE MY DOWNLOAD SPEED LIMIT?!

[Jim Lahey]

I set a download speed limit on Steam because I don't want it to hog my entire household bandwidth, yet Steam just constantly ignores it. Yes I've restarted Steam and deleted my download cache, turned the limit on and off and adjusted the value, nothing really works. This has been happening to me for months and I can find numerous other people with the same problem going way back into 2022 and earlier! This is absurd, I would expect this kind of garbage from EA or Ubisoft.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Jim Lahey:

I set a download speed limit on Steam because I don't want it to hog my entire household bandwidth, yet Steam just constantly ignores it. Yes I've restarted Steam and deleted my download cache, turned the limit on and off and adjusted the value, nothing really works. This has been happening to me for months and I can find numerous other people with the same problem going way back into 2022 and earlier! This is absurd, I would expect this kind of garbage from EA or Ubisoft.

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/0/3826413850825555246/

[Jim Lahey]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Jim Lahey:

I set a download speed limit on Steam because I don't want it to hog my entire household bandwidth, yet Steam just constantly ignores it. Yes I've restarted Steam and deleted my download cache, turned the limit on and off and adjusted the value, nothing really works. This has been happening to me for months and I can find numerous other people with the same problem going way back into 2022 and earlier! This is absurd, I would expect this kind of garbage from EA or Ubisoft.

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/0/3826413850825555246/

:qr:

In my case it's the opposite, Steam uses all my internet bandwidth when I want to limit it rather than Steam slowing my download speed when I don't want to. Either wait, the Steam option to change your desired download speed has been broken for a long, long time.

[ReBoot]

Valve use B/s by default, your ISP uses b/s. Unsurprisingly, this yields unexpected results when combined. Set Steam to b/s.

[Karumati]

Just use entire bandwidth, the faster you done with download the better it is for everyone at home.

[Satoru]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Jim Lahey:

I set a download speed limit on Steam because I don't want it to hog my entire household bandwidth, yet Steam just constantly ignores it. Yes I've restarted Steam and deleted my download cache, turned the limit on and off and adjusted the value, nothing really works. This has been happening to me for months and I can find numerous other people with the same problem going way back into 2022 and earlier! This is absurd, I would expect this kind of garbage from EA or Ubisoft.

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/0/3826413850825555246/

:qr:

I think the only bug was that the download display was in bits or bytes but the limiter was in bits only. But now it displays what you set it to and pretty much works correctly whenever I test it

[Jim Lahey]

Steam is still refusing to obey the bandwidth limit, even though this used to work fine in the past. No, I'm not just going to max it out to get the download faster because I'm not hogging all the internet in my house for over an hour.

I am so sick of Valve and their laziness, too busy printing money from stupid ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ CSGO skins to give a ♥♥♥♥ about fixing their platform or any of their games. Can't even give TF2 an update even though it's consistently one of the most played games on Steam. Piece of ♥♥♥♥ company, ♥♥♥♥ you Valve you greedy ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Jim Lahey:

Steam is still refusing to obey the bandwidth limit, even though this used to work fine in the past. No, I'm not just going to max it out to get the download faster because I'm not hogging all the internet in my house for over an hour.

I am so sick of Valve and their laziness, too busy printing money from stupid ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ CSGO skins to give a ♥♥♥♥ about fixing their platform or any of their games. Can't even give TF2 an update even though it's consistently one of the most played games on Steam. Piece of ♥♥♥♥ company, ♥♥♥♥ you Valve you greedy ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

TF2 is long dead. It's time to move on. CS2 is what they've been doing.

[I have quit gaming]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Jim Lahey:

Steam is still refusing to obey the bandwidth limit, even though this used to work fine in the past. No, I'm not just going to max it out to get the download faster because I'm not hogging all the internet in my house for over an hour.

I am so sick of Valve and their laziness, too busy printing money from stupid ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ CSGO skins to give a ♥♥♥♥ about fixing their platform or any of their games. Can't even give TF2 an update even though it's consistently one of the most played games on Steam. Piece of ♥♥♥♥ company, ♥♥♥♥ you Valve you greedy ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Search for 4-7-8 breathing exercise tutorial on Youtube. Give it a try and you will see that all of those problems will actually become 90% less severe and you will be able to handle these types of things a bit easier in the future.

Good luck!

[JukePlz]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Jim Lahey:

I set a download speed limit on Steam because I don't want it to hog my entire household bandwidth, yet Steam just constantly ignores it.

I think the Steam client needs your router to support QoS networking for this feature.

You commented that it used to work for you in the past, did you perhaps change your ISP, your router, or your router configuration during that time?

If so, this may be your problem. And figuring how to enable QoS in your router interface may fix your issue. If a QoS setting is not available you may need to replace your router by one that has it.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von ReBoot:

Valve use B/s by default, your ISP uses b/s. Unsurprisingly, this yields unexpected results when combined. Set Steam to b/s.

That's not how any of this works. That feature is only costmetic. An ISP doesn't "use" one or the other, the conversion is just a visual representation of the same data, and shouldn't affect the feature to limit network speeds, unless OP is confusing bits with bytes and setting the limit too high. Which seems unlikely.

[Reaper]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von ReBoot:

Valve use B/s by default, your ISP uses b/s. Unsurprisingly, this yields unexpected results when combined. Set Steam to b/s.

That's like changing the measurement of a foot from "in" to "cm". It's not changing the end result