steam download speed is slow

Iceira Jan 29 @ 1:56am

Check windows resource manager , if disk is busy at 100% then you are doing other things at drev.

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Iceira Jan 29 @ 1:57am

You also need cat6 from wallplug to router maybe ? ( depend on ISP modem wan line cable )

and please dont say you are on wifi, ( to the point wifi has higher Latency. ) this is fact.
Steam pro gamer dont play on wifi, and never will. ( casual players , who cares ) amatures.

There is a reason i and other say this, ( i and other AIM on best network with lowest lag, this means byebye wifi )

ps.
it's millisecond per packet's ( and games forget you send many tiny packet's to get update, it might not matter for a human , but i bet you forgot all other s connection with it into game server. ( every MS count ) for have a game run as smooth as possible.

Last edited by Iceira; Jan 29 @ 2:09am

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✪ SyTeX Jan 29 @ 2:06am

Originally posted by Iceira:
You also need cat6 from wallplug to router maybe ? ( depend on ISP modem wan line cable )

and please dont say you are on wifi, ( to the point wifi has higher Latency. ) this is fact.
Steam pro gamer dont play on wifi, and never will. ( casual players , who cares ) amatures.

There is a reason i and other say this, ( i and other AIM on best network with lowest lag, this means byebye wifi )

i said in the post that i bought cat 6 so i am not on wifi everything seems normal my pc can handle up to 1000mbps and my router up to 2.5 gb and i dont understand why am getting 230mbps max download speed and it stays there stable

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✪ SyTeX Jan 29 @ 2:09am

Originally posted by Iceira:
You also need cat6 from wallplug to router maybe ? ( depend on ISP modem wan line cable )

and please dont say you are on wifi, ( to the point wifi has higher Latency. ) this is fact.
Steam pro gamer dont play on wifi, and never will. ( casual players , who cares ) amatures.

There is a reason i and other say this, ( i and other AIM on best network with lowest lag, this means byebye wifi )

also i tried messing around with speed & duplex and everything seems fine it's set to 1.0gbps,
btw someone said to me that it may be a server issue, in the download settings you can change download region but i never tried it

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Iceira Jan 29 @ 2:11am

You can check lan driver , and test with QoS is off, do note other on your network can suffer from this.

Last edited by Iceira; Jan 29 @ 2:11am

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Iceira Jan 29 @ 2:12am

It can be
Do you get what you are paid for into own ISP.
https://www.speedtest.net/

Your problem is from ISP into other ISP partner partner and steam in other end.

You can try switch steam DL zone , but that require connection to other direction is lesser crowded,

Also ask own ISP, what the point you paid for exaple a highway with ISP's cant deliver it. ( this is seen before.

Last edited by Iceira; Jan 29 @ 2:15am

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✪ SyTeX Jan 29 @ 2:14am

Originally posted by Iceira:
It can be
Do you get what you are paid for into own ISP.
https://www.speedtest.net/

yes i am getting what am paid for it's supposed to be 1.2gbps but it's only 950mbps cause my pc can only handle 1.0gbps so that fine but right now am downloading a game and the speed is fixed between 210mbps and maximum 230mbps

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Iceira Jan 29 @ 2:16am

There is also write behind cach issue at SSD drev. plenty of post that explan this.

This shopuld be seen at windows resource manager if drev is busy then it wont DL because you can't handle the inconing data ( network work as intended according to network protocol )

Last edited by Iceira; Jan 29 @ 2:19am

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✪ SyTeX Jan 29 @ 2:45am

Originally posted by Iceira:
There is also write behind cach issue at SSD drev. plenty of post that explan this.

This shopuld be seen at windows resource manager if drev is busy then it wont DL because you can't handle the inconing data ( network work as intended according to network protocol )

i think i found the problem, it's on steam itself i just tested downloading a game on EA app and got around 860mbps, tested it also on epic games launcher and got around 640mbps despite the launcher have terrible download speeds
so at this point i think steam is the issue keeping me capped at 230mbps
i even changed download region multiple times and got the same results
idk if am the only one having issue with steam

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Lithurge Jan 29 @ 2:53am

Originally posted by ✪ SyTeX:
Originally posted by Iceira:
There is also write behind cach issue at SSD drev. plenty of post that explan this.

This shopuld be seen at windows resource manager if drev is busy then it wont DL because you can't handle the inconing data ( network work as intended according to network protocol )
i think i found the problem, it's on steam itself i just tested downloading a game on EA app and got around 860mbps, tested it also on epic games launcher and got around 640mbps despite the launcher have terrible download speeds
so at this point i think steam is the issue keeping me capped at 230mbps
i even changed download region multiple times and got the same results
idk if am the only one having issue with steam

It is and it isn't, because plenty of people get their full download speeds, my speed is half yours but I max it out and others with 1GB get the full speed when downloading from Steam.

The difficulty is working out what it is that's causing the issue between you and Steam.

One thing to check is disabling write cache (assuming your using SSD) in windows for the drive you're downloading to. Usually the symptoms are drops to 0 when this is the cause but it doesn't hurt to rule it out.

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crunchyfrog Jan 29 @ 3:01am

Originally posted by ✪ SyTeX:
Originally posted by Iceira:
You also need cat6 from wallplug to router maybe ? ( depend on ISP modem wan line cable )

and please dont say you are on wifi, ( to the point wifi has higher Latency. ) this is fact.
Steam pro gamer dont play on wifi, and never will. ( casual players , who cares ) amatures.

There is a reason i and other say this, ( i and other AIM on best network with lowest lag, this means byebye wifi )
also i tried messing around with speed & duplex and everything seems fine it's set to 1.0gbps,
btw someone said to me that it may be a server issue, in the download settings you can change download region but i never tried it

ALWAYS try the region dance.

The best thing you can do is google where in the world is currently around 2 to 4 am in the morning and choose ANY of those countries. Because they're going to be the least populated.

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✪ SyTeX Jan 29 @ 3:15am

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:
Originally posted by ✪ SyTeX:
also i tried messing around with speed & duplex and everything seems fine it's set to 1.0gbps,
btw someone said to me that it may be a server issue, in the download settings you can change download region but i never tried it
ALWAYS try the region dance.

The best thing you can do is google where in the world is currently around 2 to 4 am in the morning and choose ANY of those countries. Because they're going to be the least populated.

mhm it makes sense maybe your right am gonna wait until night and try downloading again but this is stupid like how is steam multi billion dollar company and doesn't have a server that can hadle high population so what you said could be 50/50 right and wrong

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crunchyfrog Jan 29 @ 3:25am

Originally posted by ✪ SyTeX:
Originally posted by crunchyfrog:
ALWAYS try the region dance.

The best thing you can do is google where in the world is currently around 2 to 4 am in the morning and choose ANY of those countries. Because they're going to be the least populated.
mhm it makes sense maybe your right am gonna wait until night and try downloading again but this is stupid like how is steam multi billion dollar company and doesn't have a server that can hadle high population so what you said could be 50/50 right and wrong

Because it doesn't work like that.

Servers are computers and they are all over the world. You rent them or buy them. Most rent.

As such Valve have no idea where they likely physically are. So they have little control over them, only in the sense they rent them and run them.

And servers are networks which connect to each other. As they are built to run non-stop, they're robust but they're not perfect. They have hiccups and often go wrong. So they're designed to talk to each other and when things go wrong they divert automatically.

SO none of this is anything Valve can touch or control much.

They have more than adequate servers generally and they do watch demand too.

But many epople don't understand how Steam works. It isn't like other services. Games are both encrypted and compressed, so when you donwload it relies not just on your net connectiong, but your RAM, CPU, I/O, hard drive and more. You can easily see which is causing issues by opening Task Manager and seeing if any of those resources get hit hard.

If they do, that's your bottleneck.

And lastly, Valve always recommend you never go over about 90% used on your hard drive(s). If you do, it slows down drastically as your computer fights hard to try and find space to do all that unpacking.

So make sure you do all that.

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✪ SyTeX Jan 29 @ 3:44am

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:
Originally posted by ✪ SyTeX:
mhm it makes sense maybe your right am gonna wait until night and try downloading again but this is stupid like how is steam multi billion dollar company and doesn't have a server that can hadle high population so what you said could be 50/50 right and wrong
Because it doesn't work like that.

Servers are computers and they are all over the world. You rent them or buy them. Most rent.

As such Valve have no idea where they likely physically are. So they have little control over them, only in the sense they rent them and run them.

And servers are networks which connect to each other. As they are built to run non-stop, they're robust but they're not perfect. They have hiccups and often go wrong. So they're designed to talk to each other and when things go wrong they divert automatically.

SO none of this is anything Valve can touch or control much.

They have more than adequate servers generally and they do watch demand too.

But many epople don't understand how Steam works. It isn't like other services. Games are both encrypted and compressed, so when you donwload it relies not just on your net connectiong, but your RAM, CPU, I/O, hard drive and more. You can easily see which is causing issues by opening Task Manager and seeing if any of those resources get hit hard.

If they do, that's your bottleneck.

And lastly, Valve always recommend you never go over about 90% used on your hard drive(s). If you do, it slows down drastically as your computer fights hard to try and find space to do all that unpacking.

So make sure you do all that.

thanks for these informations and replying,

but as i said i just tested downloading on deferent apps llike EA and Epic Games both results gave me very high speeds averaging 780mbps to 890mbps which i am satisfied
so bottleneck is out of the story

the only issue is steam right now, i still haven't figured why am getting this low speed, anyways
i might just reinstall steam over again with default settings and see what's up

Last edited by ✪ SyTeX; Jan 29 @ 3:45am

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crunchyfrog Jan 29 @ 3:52am

Originally posted by ✪ SyTeX:
Originally posted by crunchyfrog:
Because it doesn't work like that.

Servers are computers and they are all over the world. You rent them or buy them. Most rent.

As such Valve have no idea where they likely physically are. So they have little control over them, only in the sense they rent them and run them.

And servers are networks which connect to each other. As they are built to run non-stop, they're robust but they're not perfect. They have hiccups and often go wrong. So they're designed to talk to each other and when things go wrong they divert automatically.

SO none of this is anything Valve can touch or control much.

They have more than adequate servers generally and they do watch demand too.

But many epople don't understand how Steam works. It isn't like other services. Games are both encrypted and compressed, so when you donwload it relies not just on your net connectiong, but your RAM, CPU, I/O, hard drive and more. You can easily see which is causing issues by opening Task Manager and seeing if any of those resources get hit hard.

If they do, that's your bottleneck.

And lastly, Valve always recommend you never go over about 90% used on your hard drive(s). If you do, it slows down drastically as your computer fights hard to try and find space to do all that unpacking.

So make sure you do all that.
thanks for these informations and replying,

but as i said i just tested downloading on deferent apps llike EA and Epic Games both results gave me very high speeds averaging 780mbps to 890mbps which i am satisfied
so bottleneck is out of the story

the only issue is steam right now, i still haven't figured why am getting this low speed, anyways
i might just reinstall steam over again with default settings and see what's up

You will because as I clearly said, Steam works differently to those.

Steam was set up first so many years ago. You have to remember that. Because back then people didn't have fast speeds, many still had dial up.

As such this is a major reason why their downloads are both encrypted and compressed. It lessens the time and amount.

SO I think you've utterly misunderstood the point.

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