STEAM! STOP USING MY BANDWIDTH!

[rowan.rishi]

Right. I have a laptop. That happens to have a good graphics card on it and I occasionally use it to game. There's one thing though: My whole entire effing computing experience isn't focused on Steam. I do other ♥♥♥♥ on my laptop, you know, so today I was streaming music - but to my surprise download speeds were abysmally low (and the music kept getting cut off).
Why?
Resource monitor gave me the answer why: because this **** of a program called Steam.exe was eating away all of my bandwidth. Possibly for an update. Yeah. Cause steam needs to update itself every time I open my laptop. And this is absolute crap. You guys (the DEV's) SUCK.

Please, please, please, game developers and distribution companies: stop selling your ♥♥♥♥ though this platform. Go DRM free.

Steam sucks.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

The release branch of the client has not been updated since June 8th.

The beta on June 29th.

Most likely updating games.

[MrL0G1C]

You are free to close steam any time you like (my client is not open now).

You can also change the settings so that game updates only happen when you launch a game.
You can also uninstall games without them being removed from your library.
You can also set updates to happen at a time of day when you aren't using the PC.

But, Steam does need to use QoS packet scheduling when downloading, that is worth suggesting. I have noticed that steam can utterly wreck my connection even when it's not saturating it which is why I've set downloads to happen in the middle of the night when I'm asleep.

DRM sucks, under DRM all games are rental only, pay accordingly IMO.

[Kopalchuck]

First off all you can set steam to not open on startup, also you can set steam to manual update so it will only update when you want it to. That should help you! Best wishes!

[The Giving One]

Originally posted by rowan.rishi:

Why?
Resource monitor gave me the answer why: because this **** of a program called Steam.exe was eating away all of my bandwidth. Possibly for an update.

Then "why" did you agree to how that works in the first place, if it "sucks" so bad ?

https://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement/

As the user above said, you can change those settings instead to not update games until launch, and you can also make Steam not even run on boot of your PC.

It would seem that your knowledge of Steam and computers in general is more fitting to that word you used in your OP, not Steam itself.

Originally posted by rowan.rishi:

Steam sucks.

[Tito Shivan]

Originally posted by rowan.rishi:

Please, please, please, game developers and distribution companies: stop selling your ♥♥♥♥ though this platform. Go DRM free.

You know forced updates have nothing to do with DRM, right?