How To Identify what's limiting Steam download speed on my PC

[droid_orat]

The download speed has been capped to 3mb/s while it used to be 17-20Mb/s. What steps should I take to check if that is local software issue?

[Iceira]

Check windows resource manager if pc is busy at cpu/disk/network

Then other things like many units on own local lan, wifi in top of this , then there is QoS and other ipmangement or network app that can reduce or share bandwide.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Things you can check.
- See if anything else downloading at same time.
- See if anything doing high usage besides your Steam download example rendering videos, doing projects, or etc...
- Ensure your 3rd party anti virus isn't going haywire doing things that shouldn't be doing because of setting mess with.
- If using VPN/proxy ensure they're not the cause of the problem.

Please note how steam may handle games depends on devs that upload it to steam.

Devs may put game downloads into parts, then unzips each parts which cause high, and low speed downloads, you see writes speed goes up, and down. This also happens to updates.

You can try changing your download region via your Steam settings, example try Germany, or Canada, or USA.

[Kerssh]

Im having the same problem today, yesterday it was fine. I think its just steam problem because GoG is working just fine for me.

[Iceira]

Originally posted by Kerssh:

Im having the same problem today, yesterday it was fine. I think its just steam problem because GoG is working just fine for me.

Sounds more like steam summer event sale issue, and this is also your ISP and they Steam DL zone you have, wont work if its own ISP that is the bottleneck


Dont forget we other learn this doing covid19 , and steam handle it very well this is why many think its own ISP issue into steam.

And we are steam user here, this is not support.