Why Steam dont use AKAMAI as Content Delivery Service?

[JokerCandy]

We have Cached Akamai Service in my area which helps us to download Steam Data alot faster than our usual bandwidth speed. I dont know much about these but is it possible to get AKAMAI back again? EPIC Games giving us that.

[cinedine]

It does.

[Cathulhu]

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/832513666999368817/299B39C8B9AF1338140DDD1C2297F125A00B861C/
Remember that screenshot of yours? See where it's saved? Right, Akamai.

[JokerCandy]

I get speed from EPIC/ORIGIN/UPLAY about 100Mbps or 10MBPS , from steam just getting 20Mbps

[JokerCandy]

Cathulhu původně napsal:

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/832513666999368817/299B39C8B9AF1338140DDD1C2297F125A00B861C/
Remember that screenshot of yours? See where it's saved? Right, Akamai.

probably for image maybe? not download

[Satoru]

Download speed is limited by your hardware

Steam downloads are compressed and are recreating files locally they are not just “downloading files”

You are CPU and IO limited

[JokerCandy]

Satoru původně napsal:

Download speed is limited by your hardware

Steam downloads are compressed and are recreating files locally they are not just “downloading files”

You are CPU and IO limited

why I get over 100Mbps speed on EPIC/ORIGIN/UPLAY? :/

[Satoru]

JokerFTW původně napsal:

Satoru původně napsal:

Download speed is limited by your hardware

Steam downloads are compressed and are recreating files locally they are not just “downloading files”

You are CPU and IO limited

why I get over 100Mbps speed on EPIC/ORIGIN/UPLAY? :/

Because again they don’t download compressed data that needs to be recombined locally

They waste your bandwidth by sending the entire file as is

Steam knows your bandwidth and data caps are limited. So again it sends compressed data that is recombined locally

[Hanomaly]

JokerFTW původně napsal:

I get speed from EPIC/ORIGIN/UPLAY about 100Mbps or 10MBPS , from steam just getting 20Mbps

by default Steam reports download speed in MB (megaBYTES) rather than in Mb (megaBITS), so that could be some of the confusion?

100 megaBITs per second = 12.5 megaBTYES per second.

in Steam > Settings > Downloads >
You should see a setting to change downloads to "Display download rates in bits per second" instead of the default bytes. That might help you?

i don't use Origin or Uplay or Epic, so i have no idea what format they default to displaying download speed.

[Satoru]

Hanomaly původně napsal:

JokerFTW původně napsal:

I get speed from EPIC/ORIGIN/UPLAY about 100Mbps or 10MBPS , from steam just getting 20Mbps

by default Steam reports download speed in MB (megaBYTES) rather than in Mb (megaBITS), so that could be some of the confusion?

100 megaBITs per second = 12.5 megaBTYES per second.

in Steam > Settings > Downloads >
You should see a setting to change downloads to "Display download rates in bits per second" instead of the default bytes. That might help you?

i don't use Origin or Uplay or Epic, so i have no idea what format they default to displaying download speed.

The main difference is that steam downloads games in “Chunks” that are compressed and then recombined locally. While other services basically just dump the entire file as is.

[JokerCandy]

Satoru původně napsal:

Hanomaly původně napsal:

by default Steam reports download speed in MB (megaBYTES) rather than in Mb (megaBITS), so that could be some of the confusion?

100 megaBITs per second = 12.5 megaBTYES per second.

in Steam > Settings > Downloads >
You should see a setting to change downloads to "Display download rates in bits per second" instead of the default bytes. That might help you?

i don't use Origin or Uplay or Epic, so i have no idea what format they default to displaying download speed.

The main difference is that steam downloads games in “Chunks” that are compressed and then recombined locally. While other services basically just dump the entire file as is.

I have SSD so no problem on hardware side I guess.

[Cathulhu]

Depends on how good the SSD is IO wise, also there's still the CPU that needs to process the data.

[Satoru]

JokerFTW původně napsal:

Satoru původně napsal:

The main difference is that steam downloads games in “Chunks” that are compressed and then recombined locally. While other services basically just dump the entire file as is.

I have SSD so no problem on hardware side I guess.

Again its both IO and CPU limited

If you're patching you're both CPU and IO capped

[JokerCandy]

Cathulhu původně napsal:

Depends on how good the SSD is IO wise, also there's still the CPU that needs to process the data.

7700k CPU is worth I guess

[JokerCandy]

put the hut in huut původně napsal:

steam does download at your full bandwidth, im doing a test game download and its 93 mbps or 11 MB/s

yes it downloads at full bandwidth but no at cached Speed I used to get 100Mbps or 10megabytes... now its down to 2.1megabytes due to their change in AKAMAI cache service. they stoppED doing that