Internet speed limited at 1.2 MB/s

[QuintenMC]

basically what the title said, I have a 130 Mb/s speed, translating to roughly 16 MB/s. the download speed is constantly at 1.2 so it feels like it's limited by force rather than wifi being bad. Is this a steam thing during busy hours or can I fix it somehow?

edit: It seems that there was indeed a limiter, be it either on my end or steam's end. Once the clock hit 11 PM my download jumped to 160 Mb/s. Thanks for the advice anyways.

[Cathulhu]

1.2 Megabyte equal to 10 Megabit, which indicates that there is either a limiter at work somewhere on your end, or your Wifi signal is utter crap.

[QuintenMC]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

1.2 Megabyte equal to 10 Megabit, which indicates that there is either a limiter at work somewhere on your end, or your Wifi signal is utter crap.

Is it possible that it only limits steam? My internet speed tests all still give 130-140 Mb/s.

[Cathulhu]

Depends on where the limiter is set up and how it works. Check Steam Settings --> Downloads if there is some download speed limit set.

[QuintenMC]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

Depends on where the limiter is set up and how it works. Check Steam Settings --> Downloads if there is some download speed limit set.

Already did, currently disabling my antivirus to see if that's the problem.

edit: It was not
Double trouble edit: My clock hit 11 pm and my download speed jumped to 160 Mb/s. Guess it was some weird safety mechanism for busy hours.

[Zefar]

If you're on Win11 turning of IPV6 can do the trick. Google will tell you how.

Even if it's been around for like 2 decades the internet still does not like it.

[Cathulhu]

Originally posted by QuintenMC:

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

Depends on where the limiter is set up and how it works. Check Steam Settings --> Downloads if there is some download speed limit set.

Already did, currently disabling my antivirus to see if that's the problem.

edit: It was not
Double trouble edit: My clock hit 11 pm and my download speed jumped to 160 Mb/s. Guess it was some weird safety mechanism for busy hours.

Could have been some throttling by your ISP.
Steam itself does not throttle downloads.

[Jaun D'arc]

so it fixed itself, btw any chance you are belgian and have telenet provider, i seem to have the same problem and i'm pretty sure it's telenet

[Jaun D'arc]

tho for me it doesn't get fixed after 11pm

[QuintenMC]

Originally posted by Jaun D'arc:

so it fixed itself, btw any chance you are belgian and have telenet provider, i seem to have the same problem and i'm pretty sure it's telenet

Telenet it is lol

[riziboi]

yup i have the same issue and provider

[riziboi]

ohh lol i used a vpn and it went from 10 to 500 mbps

[Ettanin]

Originally posted by riziboi:

ohh lol i used a vpn and it went from 10 to 500 mbps

Net neutrality/Double Paid Carrier issue.

This old article explains the economical politics issues behind it (not only Hetzner suffered/suffers from it):
http://web.archive.org/web/20200205014018/https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Double_Paid_Traffic/en

[Connie]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.