Download speeds really slow now

[Ankido]

For some reason, my download speeds are terrible. It's taking 2hrs and 30 minutes to download 57GB update for Once Human. I've checked my speed and it's 876 Mbps download and 360 Mbps upload. This goes for all game updates. Why is my connection to steam servers bad now?

[Ankido]

On my laptop, I'm downloading at speeds of up to 300mbps. On my main PC it's going up and down maxing at 120 but dropping down to around 1mbps or 0. I tried putting back to the 2x16gb that I had before and I get the same issue. I ruled out memory. However, I'm intrigued that my Ethernet card doesn't work with 4 sticks put into the computer so I have to use my motherboards ethernet port.

[crunchyfrog]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Ankido:

On my laptop, I'm downloading at speeds of up to 300mbps. On my main PC it's going up and down maxing at 120 but dropping down to around 1mbps or 0. I tried putting back to the 2x16gb that I had before and I get the same issue. I ruled out memory. However, I'm intrigued that my Ethernet card doesn't work with 4 sticks put into the computer so I have to use my motherboards ethernet port.

You still shoudn't rule out memory purely because you reverted back. For instance, how do you know you haven't inadvertently triggered some settnig in BIOS, or maybe inserted RAM incorrectly, or got some debris in ther or dirt, or even slightly damamged something putting it in?

This is why you NEVER doscount anything if a change manifests after you've done something. They tend to be causal. I cannot begin to tell you how many times over the decades in repairing electronics this sort of thing has happened.

This is why I told you what to do as it will more effectively TELL yuou where the problem lies.

So please follow what I said before - open up your downloads page, open up Task Manager. Watch downloads happen and see what's going on with your resources.

[Ankido]

Problem solved! Steam needed to be uninstalled using Revo Uninstaller

[crunchyfrog]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Ankido:

Problem solved! Steam needed to be uninstalled using Revo Uninstaller

You likely didn't need to do that.

What you should do in future is understand that as Steam is an online service, from time to time files can get corrupted. This often happens, and Steam has facilities to fix it built in.

First off you try clearing your web cache, or if applicable and you're having issues getting downloads to go through, your download cache.

If things still persist, there's an easy "cure all" - you go to your install folder and delete everything EXCEPT steam.exe and your steamapps folder (this is where your games reside so don't delete that).

Then run steam.exe and it will reacquire all the needed files.

So no need to mess around totally uninstalling./