Steam Downloading Starts and Stops

[alan]

Basically, when updating or downloading a new game, it begins downloading, but then slows down and stops. Then starts up again so it ends up looking like this:
http://puu.sh/48iHj.jpg

My connection is slow, but while doing direct downloads off the web, or anywhere else for that matter, it is a constant speed. This only happens with Steam. I've also tried changing which server to connect too, nothing.

Any guidance? Cheers.

[☜❶☞Limbo ☜❶☞]

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[‘jiuzzu]

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[Jugz-O-Matic]

one thing you guys can try to see if it is your internet or not is use ping plotter. I was suffering from heavy packet loss which was causing steam to stop and start. Ping Plotter is free and you will see exactly if it is your service. My internet service provider has since corrected the problem a while ago now.

[Maze]

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4519447195

This is my internet speed.

[Rin Satsuki]

Apologies for possibly Necro-ing this thread, but I have a somewhat similar issue, the difference being that whenever the DL stops, it's automatically placed in the part of the Downloads menu where I basically have to manually resume the download.

[Jugz-O-Matic]

MAzing87 の投稿を引用：

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4519447195

This is my internet speed.

Damn man that's awsome I envy you. What is that fiber? Non the less try PINGPLOTTER. Doesn't matter how fast your internet is you may be suffering major packet loss and Steam turns off downloads when that happens then retrys later. Trust me very useful free tool

[Maze]

solosociable の投稿を引用：

MAzing87 の投稿を引用：

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4519447195

This is my internet speed.

Damn man that's awsome I envy you. What is that fiber? Non the less try PINGPLOTTER. Doesn't matter how fast your internet is you may be suffering major packet loss and Steam turns off downloads when that happens then retrys later. Trust me very useful free tool

Yes sir! I can't use anything other than Fiber. I envy my job as it has 94MB/s both ways.. lol.

But I will try the pingplotter. Thanks.

[Akhiro]

Has anyone had any luck with this issue yet? I haven't. Even after reinstalling Steam the same problem persists.

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Tyrannis の投稿を引用：

Yeah mine keeps doing that. It never used to but I noticed over the last few days it has. At the moment it's either 59kb/s or 108kb/s. The peak rate is 4.9MB/s however. I've done speed tests and ping tests and it seems like I have a stable connection.

[Ginjarou]

I've had this problem for months, it's infuriating. I am on a wifi extender though but other PC game clients work fine though ...

[Jugz-O-Matic]

I don't know how many times to say this. Try pingplotter.

https://www.pingplotter.com/

Let us know how it goes.

@ MAzing87 what were the results? Any weak hops?

[Akhiro]

Tried PingPlotter and didn't really see anything abnormal. I know that my internet connection is fine considering the fact that I'm able to download things perfectly fine outside of Steam. I'm not sure what more I can do to try to fix this, if I even can fix it. Someone said reinstalling windows fixed it for them so I'm curious if upgrading from Win 7 to Win 10 might help. Considering that as sort of a last resort though.

[Maze]

Akhiro の投稿を引用：

Tried PingPlotter and didn't really see anything abnormal. I know that my internet connection is fine considering the fact that I'm able to download things perfectly fine outside of Steam. I'm not sure what more I can do to try to fix this, if I even can fix it. Someone said reinstalling windows fixed it for them so I'm curious if upgrading from Win 7 to Win 10 might help. Considering that as sort of a last resort though.

Same here. I can download games in Origin or Battlenet clients at much higher speeds (as high as 21 MB/s) with no hiccups, 0 issues! I'm really hoping the Windows 10 upgrade would eliminate this. It seems to be affecting mostly Windows 7 users. Only a week or so left until it's here.

@solosociable I have tried PingPlotter. It's a nice tool to have, but didn't see anything unusual from almost an hour of time it was activated. I saw one moment it was 100% packet loss, but other than that, nothing unusual to report.

It's just Steam not keeping the connection when a game is downloading. And if I'm downloading multiple games, the queue page gives them start times that are much too soon as it stops a current download to begin.

[Jugz-O-Matic]

Might help. Sorry that didn't work for ya. I had the same issue and it was my internet that was the problem. Steam support takes forever to answer a ticket. I had to figure the problem myself even after a month of waiting for them to answer. I'm really just hoping that installing Win10 doesn't open a few cans of worms with all the programs I'm running. We will see.

[Jugz-O-Matic]

wait a minute 100% packet loss? That's not good. should be 0 to around 4% which is tolerable but still crappy