Steam download speeds are incredibly slow

[Jack4717]

I have tried everything. I do not have a limiter set, my download region is correct, I have cleared my cache, and I have already tried to reinstall steam (didn’t fix). My download speed for my internet is ~670Mbps, yet my steam can only go around 0-15mbps. Any ideas?

[Issues]

same problem here

[Dr. Permixtus]

Same here. Usually not an issue for me but for a couple hours today it's just been really slow.
Are you from Europe by chance? Perhaps it's a regional server load issue.

[EasternBlood21]

Same problem here

[Westman]

same here, every server i tried. 1mb/s max in steam, 30mb/s any other download. must be a steam problem

[add 2211]

احب امي

[feedthejim]

having the same problem here, is that recent for you all?

[Satoru]

Steam pushes 20Tbps on a normal day with ease

https://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/

During the Baldur's Gate 3 launch steam was pushing 150Tbps globally. They were pushing more data in Europe than they do on a normal day

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3015069725

Steam can obliterate 1gbps connections

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3117196527

Your steam downloads are limited by

1) your CPU
2) your disk IO
3) your anti-virus
4) your ISP

Choose one

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1082209554

[revbast]

Same here in the U.S.

[BananaTerracottaPIE]

Same problem here in turkey, i am limited to 1mb disk usage and download speed wont go over that. Any other platform works fine what is happening

[DiGiLuN]

Anybodz gets better download speed or it is still slow af

[EasternBlood21]

It's been 14 hours maybe more and nothing has changed. I'm doing download from BattleNet, my speed very good in there.

[crunchyfrog]

You DO NOT have your region set correctly, as that's not how it works.

You are free to use ANY region. It isn't like online gaming where ping is relevant. It's largely a ONE-WAY download. So ping means NOTHING.

It's always slower the couple of weeks of a sale and AFTER the sale, because people are heavily hitting the serves to download the games they bought.

What you're supposed to do is the region dance. Go to Google. and search for what countries of the world are currently around 2 to 4 am in the morning (most people there will be asleep). Then you pick one of them. Try a few and tweak for the best one you can find.

Simples.

[WrongfulCarrot]

Same problem for me. Restarting the modem worked for a couple of hours then it dropped to the same speed again. The weird thing is that another device on the same network works flawlessly...

[crunchyfrog]

Publicado originalmente por WrongfulCarrot:

Same problem for me. Restarting the modem worked for a couple of hours then it dropped to the same speed again. The weird thing is that another device on the same network works flawlessly...

If you have another device on the same network that indicates something software wise or hardware wise on your current setup is causing it.

You can try a couple of things to narrow it down.

First off boot Windows in Safe Mode WITH netwroking. ONLY run Steam and then try downloading. If it goes OK, then it proves that some software on your PC is causing the issue. If it doesn't then it's likely something else.

Again the trick especially a couple of weeks after a sale is to region dance. As I said above, go to Google, look up which regions of the world are currently around 2 to 4 am and pick any of those, to find which best works for you.

[WrongfulCarrot]

Publicado originalmente por crunchyfrog:

Publicado originalmente por WrongfulCarrot:

Same problem for me. Restarting the modem worked for a couple of hours then it dropped to the same speed again. The weird thing is that another device on the same network works flawlessly...

If you have another device on the same network that indicates something software wise or hardware wise on your current setup is causing it.

You can try a couple of things to narrow it down.

First off boot Windows in Safe Mode WITH netwroking. ONLY run Steam and then try downloading. If it goes OK, then it proves that some software on your PC is causing the issue. If it doesn't then it's likely something else.

Again the trick especially a couple of weeks after a sale is to region dance. As I said above, go to Google, look up which regions of the world are currently around 2 to 4 am and pick any of those, to find which best works for you.

Safe mode didn't narrow it down to software conflict sadly. The region thing also can't be it, tried that in pretty much all the timezones at this point and the limit is present constantly. Complete reinstall also didn't change a thing.
Tried reinstalling my network driver as well to no result.
Write speed is also not an issue, the drive otherwise works well.
Disabling firewall also didn't solve it.

The weird thing is that all of us here in this thread started to experience this at around the same time and we all experience pretty much the same amount of limit of 1MB/s.

The wise thing would be to find the common points we have, maybe that helps.
I'm from Hungary and the relevant parts of my config are:
CPU: 13700KF
MB: Gigabyte Aorus Elite AX DDR4
SSD: Kingston KC3000 2TB