Steam downloads super slow

[Vinnilla]

Hey all,

My steam downloads have been incredibly slow recently. I pay for 1 gig internet and I am hardwired in with Ethernet. Running an internet test I average 940 Mbps. Trying to download any steam game on any server i am maxing at about 10 Mbps. If I hop over to the Epic or Blizzard client I am averaging closing to 800ish Mbps. I have tried a full uninstall and reinstall of steam, swapping download regions, clearing the cache and download speeds remain super slow. Any ideas on how to fix this?

[Sirbum69]

I have noticed the exact same thing. I have tested my NVME drive, and it reads/writes at 3500, I have tried turning on and off caching of the drives. nothing seems to work. Funny thing is I use to just a few weeks ago be able to uninstall and reinstall a game that was 50 gigs in like 20 mins.

Now its taking 8 hours because its more or less capped at 12 Mbps. So they have done something with the download speeds. I also have tried changing all kinds of servers with no better rates.

But im sure people will come in and say that drive speed and cpu will effect all this. Blah. if i was downloading at 80 Mbps 2 weeks ago and now its 12 it's not my system.

main reason I checked the health of my NVME was to be sure it was not failing.

Edit: Soon as I changed to a server that was accross the ocean from me my downloads went from 12 to 890 Mbps. So games were instantly downloaded.

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[Vinnilla]

Sirbum69 původně napsal:

I have noticed the exact same thing. I have tested my NVME drive, and it reads/writes at 3500, I have tried turning on and off caching of the drives. nothing seems to work. Funny thing is I use to just a few weeks ago be able to uninstall and reinstall a game that was 50 gigs in like 20 mins.

Now its taking 8 hours because its more or less capped at 12 Mbps. So they have done something with the download speeds. I also have tried changing all kinds of servers with no better rates.

But im sure people will come in and say that drive speed and cpu will effect all this. Blah. if i was downloading at 80 Mbps 2 weeks ago and now its 12 it's not my system.

main reason I checked the health of my NVME was to be sure it was not failing.

Edit: Soon as I changed to a server that was accross the ocean from me my downloads went from 12 to 890 Mbps. So games were instantly downloaded.

After trying Seattle, Chicago and Boston servers with the same result..... Swapping to London seemed to have increased my speeds in the 800 Mbps.

[Sirbum69]

Vinnilla původně napsal:

Sirbum69 původně napsal:

I have noticed the exact same thing. I have tested my NVME drive, and it reads/writes at 3500, I have tried turning on and off caching of the drives. nothing seems to work. Funny thing is I use to just a few weeks ago be able to uninstall and reinstall a game that was 50 gigs in like 20 mins.

Now its taking 8 hours because its more or less capped at 12 Mbps. So they have done something with the download speeds. I also have tried changing all kinds of servers with no better rates.

But im sure people will come in and say that drive speed and cpu will effect all this. Blah. if i was downloading at 80 Mbps 2 weeks ago and now its 12 it's not my system.

main reason I checked the health of my NVME was to be sure it was not failing.

Edit: Soon as I changed to a server that was accross the ocean from me my downloads went from 12 to 890 Mbps. So games were instantly downloaded.

After trying Seattle, Chicago and Boston servers with the same result..... Swapping to London seemed to have increased my speeds in the 800 Mbps.

Yep seems to be any us server that is causing this. yet there has been no word from steam.

[Crovalicious]

If you guys are still having this problem, try running a steam game in the background.

Like, start the download, open a steam game, alt-tab out of the game, and force the download to start again.

I had this problem for forever and this solved it for me, no idea why or if it works for anyone else.

If you have a chance to try it, let me know if it works.