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Steam's servers in europe hold their maintenance period every tuesday. The exact time differs per country. In my case its at exactly midnight to about 2AM usually. In your case it sounds earlier.
As for slowdowns happening experienced by other people. I did make a thread about it. Plenty of times people report issues.
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/3/6655846466491940045/
Though this thread is more or less about Windows downloading slower on Steam than issues caused by maintenance. (I expect the cause being maintenance at least).
I never paid attention to these server-side fluctuations. Would not want to be a SysAdmin these days anymore. These Petabytes of downloads versus millions of connections every day (incl. attacks) ... it is quite astonishing that all works, at all?
In my case,- a good night sleep later + different dynamic IP from my ISP - the Steam Download Servers are delivering again at full speed. Must have been some extra maintenance period or server balancing switcheroo.
Just wait then you figureout, most get lucky its a midnight to morning task they do.
but fact is it is daylight for ½ of the globe in other places. ( so technical there is no midnight only issue, if other region get the consequence of this.
We as user normaly dont think on such, you need to have seen the cause and effect.
i still think its better to know then not knowing, as we had a choise anyway. ( so then you learn and look at it in global issue they do a pretty good job in have all server up while they are doing it. ( we just as user dont know this. )
but your time index dont seem to match 11 hours ago , so it also look like ISP might had fiber or upgrade or network issue.
assume its not own home network problem.
OP please tell us you post was just rant, because Half-Life 2 activation, RELEASE DATE: 16 Nov, 2004
this look like a joke, now, but many forget we are not allowed to be funny, sense all do not laugh at same thing, and what if this post actual is right, but you will not say it or dont know better about pc, even i have seen this before , even rich ppl have a pc that took 10minute to startup. ( and no one told them time to buy better pc. )
make sure you understand we other see it as being funny, sence it HL2 was released.
Check Steam Server Status: Steam can sometimes have server issues, even if it's rare. You can check Steam’s server status on websites like Steamstat.us to see if there are any outages or problems with the content servers.
Limit Bandwidth in Steam Settings: Try going into Steam > Settings > Downloads and see if you’ve accidentally enabled any bandwidth limits. Disabling those might help, or you can set it to "No limit" and restart.
Change Download Region: I know you said you’ve tried switching regions, but sometimes you need to switch to a region that's further away, like in another country. Sometimes nearby regions are also affected if Steam servers are under heavy traffic.
ISP Throttling: Even though you mentioned your ISP has been reliable, you might want to double-check with them if they're throttling Steam specifically. They may have started to limit traffic to certain services.
Check for VPNs or Proxies: If you have a VPN or proxy running, try turning it off, as that can sometimes mess with Steam downloads.
Flush DNS: Since you’re on Linux, you might want to try flushing your DNS. You can do this by running the command:
bash
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sudo systemd-resolve --flush-caches
Restart Steam after that to see if it improves your speed.
Reinstall Steam or Switch to Proton: Sometimes Steam on Linux can have weird issues. If you keep having problems, you could try reinstalling Steam or switch entirely to running it with Proton (you mentioned Proton earlier, so you’re probably familiar).
Steam Account Flags: It’s unlikely, but as you mentioned that you were switching between native Linux and Proton versions frequently, there’s a small chance Steam’s security systems might have flagged something unusual about your behavior (thinking it's a DDoS or excessive server requests). Unfortunately, there isn’t a direct way to check for that, but if the problem persists, contacting Steam support could be an option.
I hope one of these suggestions helps! I’ve been there with slow downloads out of nowhere—it’s super frustrating when you want to play. Let us know if anything works!
Here in Britain, last night for me was a bit slow in responding, possibly the worst I've seen it. Generally, you may notice functions like inventories not working but the rest of Steam works fine, but for me any click took a few seconds to go through.
So I would guess they were doing some pretty unusual maintenance last night.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Steam/Troubleshooting#Unusually_slow_download_speed
HTTP2 cause and fix for GNU/Linux, in detail:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3292658482
You can check the sources of the guide, they also show the config file and variable change for Windows.