Customizable Bandwidth Limiter

[mugetsu88]

Can you please add an option for a custom bandwidth limitation, Origin and battlenet have the option. The current top two are 10 MB/s and 25 MB/s. My ISP has upgraded their network and now my max download speed is 27MB/s and i would like to set my download limit around 20-22 so i can still stream and surf the web.

[RikuKawai]

I assume you mean megabits per second and not megabytes per second for your internet speed? In which case the setting you are looking for is 2 MB/s or 3 MB/s cap. 1 MB/s = 8 mbps.

[michael.bourke]

videogame57 původně napsal:

I assume you mean megabits per second and not megabytes per second for your internet speed? In which case the setting you are looking for is 2 MB/s or 3 MB/s cap. 1 MB/s = 8 mbps.

Yes i assume the op does mean bits rather than bytes never the less a reasonable suggestion although i personally have never had a problem streaming video while downloading games.

[mugetsu88]

I get them confused but when i got to speedtest.net i get 215. So based on what your saying then i was correct with my max download speed being 27MB/s and you can either set it to 10 or 25. I want a custom setting so i can set it to 20-22.

[wuddih]

Steam by default displays everything in byte, including the limiter unless you change that to mbit in the settings.

25megabyte/s is 200mbit, which is a normal affordable and available connection in some countries. for some people that seems still incomprehensible.

until Valve decides to do something like this

close Steam
open with text editor: .\Steam\config\config.vdf
search for "DownloadThrottleKbps"
change it (calculator[www.google.com])
start Steam.

if you wanna have to redo this, do not open steam settings -> downloads and click ok. Steam automatically selectes the next valid higher value in the box, if you click ok this will get saved.

[REZ₪NIK]

I dont see the issue here, of course steam let's you limit download usage. It's right there in the settings under "Download"

[Dr. Fronkensteen]

REZ₪NIK původně napsal:

I dont see the issue here, of course steam let's you limit download usage. It's right there in the settings under "Download"

The issue is the only options for higher bandwidth users is 10MB/s, and 25MB/s

Many people want a custom option because they want the limit somewhere between 10 and 25.

[Mike]

This is exactly what I came here to suggest.

I have a 200/20 connection and the limit of 10 is too low and 25 is too high.

Ideally there would be a text box or slider, for the options to suit all users there need to be a lot more options and the drop down already has too many options. This is the wrong type of control for this setting.

This is also related to the Steam Hardware Survey, which is poor at recording connection speed. So this whole area generally needs more attention.