Is Steam throttling my downloads?

[Nukesnipe]

So I pay for 50 mbps download speed, and on average get about 35 mbps down. This should translate to about 6 and 4 MB/s download speeds, respectively, and I do get this sometimes on Steam. Hell, sometimes it even goes as high as 9 MB/s, but that's rare.
Thing is, lately I've been lucky to crack 750 KB/s, and as far as I can tell, it's just Steam. If it's late at night at like, 3 AM I might get 4 MB/s, but under most circumstances lately I can't even break a single megabyte.
There's no other devices in the house using the internet right now, I have the download server set to a city an hour away from where I live, I've checked and made sure that my ISP, Windows and Steam aren't set to throttle my connection, and I've cleared my download cache. I've done everything I can think of to try and get my download speeds up, but I really don't think it's anything on my end.
So, any ideas on how to fix it? Or do I just have to love with Steam downloads taking forever if I don't download overnight?

[Nukesnipe]

Originally posted by Elucidator:

Originally posted by Nukesnipe:

Will edit this post in a bit with results.

Nothing?
Did you try a different DNS yet?

Its possible its a piece of software interfering with Steam
Steam uses a hacker's method of gaining the highest system previllages on your PC in order to bypass restrictions if it is nessecary and hasn't changed that approach for a long time.

Windows is prioritizing itself on that level, so something like windows update or some kind of windows check could diffidently slow down your download/writing.

Other things that can affect speed apparently vary in number. There was one user who found out that for some reason, his download speed increased when he disabled "Disk caching on the device", which is a feature designed to increase writing speed.

Anyway its hard to guess.

Sorry got busy with life. No, I haven't noticed any change after doing all that stuff. If it's any other software interfering then idk, task manager says there's nothing else using the network when I'm downloading, it just seems to cap itself at a really low number for most of the day.

Originally posted by nullable:

Originally posted by Nukesnipe:

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Christ, you're an arrogant jerk. Just buzz off already, you clearly have zero interest in trying to help.

[cobramite]

IF YOU BUYS FROM PLACES LIKE CD KEYS and just using the steam platform to download then yes they do throttle you

[shiel]

Originally posted by cobramite:

IF YOU BUYS FROM PLACES LIKE CD KEYS and just using the steam platform to download then yes they do throttle you

No... not sure why you had to necro a thread just to post untrue nonsense.

[John]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.