Multiple download connections

[erikfzr]

I'd very much like to have multiple downloads connections, since I have two Internet connections with a load balancing router.
I don't mean "download two games at the same time", I'd rather suggest having two (or more) connections open to download chunks of the game data.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Is the speed you pay for something like 100mb/s per connection and you want to be able to double your DL speed?

[erikfzr]

I have two connections with 80/40 Mbits/s.
On dslreports.com I get 160Mb/s download speeds (using multiple connections).

I just checked, speeds have gone up two almost 20MB/s, so it seems Steam is already using multiple connections.

I will close this discussion

[Satoru]

Steam already does multi stream downloads

Note your router is supposed to decide how traffic is handled. That’s not a Steam issue

[erikfzr]

Thanks Satoru for your reply. As already mentioned in my second comment, I checked a second time and the download speeds were 20 MB/s.

[aiusepsi]

If you want to get some introspection into what servers Steam is downloading from, open the Steam console (usually the easiest way is to paste steam://open/console into a browser's address bar) and enter "download_sources" while you're downloading something, and it'll show you which servers it's connected to and which download jobs are currently in flight.