Why does my steam download speed drop drastically?

[6REN]

Started downloading a game and my download speeds reached 23.2mb/s as the peak and it stayed around 17-19mb/s for the first 40% and after that it's only downloading at 7-9mb/s. What's the issue and how do i fix this?

[filipe]

Well maybe you enabled to throttle it while playing, other people using the internet slows it down too like if someone is watching youtube at 1080p that would take atleast 1-2mb/s off. Other then that i would say try downloading something big from the browser and see if its the same and if so i would conact the internet provider.

[6REN]

Originally posted by filipe:

Well maybe you enabled to throttle it while playing, other people using the internet slows it down too like if someone is watching youtube at 1080p that would take atleast 1-2mb/s off. Other then that i would say try downloading something big from the browser and see if its the same and if so i would conact the internet provider.

It was enabled but I wasn't playing at the time and funny enough I was watching youtube it was at its peak. When i closed everything and left my pc idle, it dropped all the way to 10 mb/s

[NeoBushido]

Dunno i had a similar issue for about half a year now but its tied to having any browser running(FF or opera). They almost instantly kill the speed down to next to nothing. Mind you i got fiber optic and great speed so i shouldn't have any issue and even before that i had decent internet that was never affected by that. Even without that some download regions just have pathetic speeds.

[Lithurge]

If you're downloading to a SSD then try disabling/enabling write cache for it. Some people have found this fixes it.

[Severus]

I have the same problem, it's only with Steam, i tried disabling/enabling write cache, changing download region, clearing cache, restarting modem. Noting seems to work, sometimes it starts at full speed, but in a few seconds it drops drastically. It become slower than my previous non fiber connection.