slow download speed with 1.0 gb fiber connection

[✪ SyTeX]

hey, my steam download speed averages around 130mbps and max 230mbps i have a 1.0 GB internet subscription and when i do speed test on any test site i get around 950 to 960mbps

i tried downloading games from other game services such as : EA, Epic Games, Ubisoft and i get around 800mbps to 840mbps download speed so the issue is with my steam itself


i tried changing region, clean steam reinstall, clearing cache but nothing helps the download speed is still the same and it's not stable it goes from 203 mbps to 136 in an instant, even chrome i get the full speed of my subscription with the right dns

if somone have a gigabit connection pls do tell me if you are getting the full speed

[Elucidator]

This reads like "I ordered 'something', but its arriving late. I tried cleaning the house a bit, I even asked the package deliver guy to just use a different warehouse, but it's still arriving late."

What slows down delivery:
the size of the packages. The size of the truck. The weight of the truck. The fuel the truck uses. The type of truck. The roads the truck uses. How many gates the truck needs to hop through. How many times the truck is inspected, etc.

You want the fastest downloads on Steam out of the box?
Use linux.

But EA, etc. is fast.
Yes, I know- but Steam is old and weird and Steam doesn't feel inclined to improve their software, nor their forum, etc.
Steam ignores UAC, uses a hack to bypass all permissions roadblocks and installs games as a background service using Trusted Installer permission level.
That alone makes windows think installing is not user initiated, but a background service, so whatever you do will slow down downloading; it has no priority.

Steam also downloads files as a stream, which windows also limits download speed of by default.

The combination is that everything is running on power saving mode / green power mode and everything is also offloaded to you CPU, which then runs the task on Efficiency Cores or whatever green power setting and lows the power even further, causing the huge bottlenecks with download speed.
Turn on youtube or netflix and it gets worse yes.

You can fix it, but you need to tweak your entire pc; every driver involved basically.

Edit:
Seems like you have already has this discussion here:
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/595139465034351973/

Some people buy premade, preinstalled, preoptimized PCs, other buy laptops
laptops have it the worst when it comes to being optimized to use as little power as possible-
the point being some people don't need to do anything to max out their download speed, even when they live in the same location.

I + others do not know anything about your pc
and you can blame steam sure-
just like how you can blame the user for not using chrome when a website decides to block out firefox all of the sudden-
If you don't know the order of events, you will blame steam more likely. But it is a fact unfortunately, that steam, currently likely runs under power saving circumstances, at least on modern / the latest hardware.

Older PCs have none of these specific issues. All they needed to do was run tcp optimizer and in a flash they had max download speed.

[Ettanin]

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if somone have a gigabit connection pls do tell me if you are getting the full speed

I do.

You need a M.2 NVMe drive to make use of the full speed on Steam. More info here:
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/3203746811810061210/#c3203747342899193194

[Lithurge]

You've already got a discussion going on this, why post again?

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/595139465034351973/

[MeKLiN]

i could tell this elucidator dork was not knowledgeable on windows, uses only linux so makes sense. EACH STEAM GAME USES A DIFFERENT SERVER, SOME OF THEM DONT USE OFFICIAL SERVERS FOR PATCHING OR DOWNLOADS. SOME DOWNLOAD AT 1/3RD THE SPEED AS ANOTHER GAME WITH MORE MONEY AND BETTER SERVERS WOULD DOWNLOAD AT WE'RE TALKING 15-30MBPS VS 90MBIT/S: SOURCE: DOTA FAST, RUST FAST, DARK AND DARKER SLOW

[✪ SyTeX]

Цитата допису Ettanin:

Цитата допису ✪ SyTeX:

if somone have a gigabit connection pls do tell me if you are getting the full speed

I do.

You need a M.2 NVMe drive to make use of the full speed on Steam. More info here:
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/3203746811810061210/#c3203747342899193194

i don't think i need anything, because i have tried downloading on other game services and i get around 840mbps only steam is stuck between 200 to 230 mbps so i dont think that's a hardware issue

[Ettanin]

Steam downloads and installs at the same time.

1. Downloading the encrypted and compressed chunk (Internet)
2. Decrypting and unpacking the chunk (Disk)
3. Applying the diff delta to a new copy of the patched file (Disk) [if it's a patch]
4. Deleting the previous now outdated copy of the file (Disk) [if it's a patch]

Either usage limits the other: Slower internet slows down disk progress, slow disk progress slows down chunk download.

Such operation is I/O heavy and SATA is simply too slow to keep up.

[Elucidator]

Цитата допису MeKLiN:

i could tell this elucidator [...] was not knowledgeable on windows,

Did you verify anything of what I said?

So, for example "Windows by default limits download speeds of stream type downloads" + the claim that Steam uses this mechanic to download?

In the registry, you can find:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \\ SOFTWARE \\ Microsoft \\ Windows NT \\ CurrentVersion \\ Multimedia \\ SystemProfile
which contains a key: NetworkThrottlingIndex
By default, this is set to A

Extremely simplified, this averagely means 10% of your download speed is throttled for stream downloads. When you have if you have 1Gigabit speed (1000Mbits), then likely you can only get about 900mbits or maybe slightly over.

You can disable it by setting it to FFFFFFFF instead.

more complicatedly: it limits the mbits/s each download stream can do at the same time. When a valid connection has been made, then it basically won't go over 100mbit/s for that one stream, however Steam downloads using multiple streams to get a file as fast as possible.
Some connections to a file have less streams available at a certain time, others have a lot more. The point is, its not a good setting with high download speeds.


The trusted installer part I mentioned is obvious. You can see it in task manager.

Look up Core Parking
Inspect your driver (hardware monitor, etc.), look at the Offloading settings for your network interface.

At any rate, stop invalidating the commentary just because you don't like it. Provide stuff that proves the opposite when you want to invalidate it.