Download manager

[Sam]

better download system, single file que is 1987

[Cathulhu]

Not sure what you are talking about as Steam already uses multi-threaded downloads.
Having multiple simultaneous downloads would only slow downloads overall due to increased overhead.

[Sam]

limit it per account

[Sam]

Originalmente postado por englishman:

limit it per account

on a hourly/per/day/month/account thing yano

[Sam]

off-topic > make it a subscription > steam pro with benefits to customer with various things including but not limited to better download manager

off-off-topic > when will steam >settings>interface>skinz be utilized

[Gwarsbane]

Originalmente postado por englishman:

better download system, single file que is 1987

Originalmente postado por englishman:

limit it per account

Originalmente postado por englishman:

Originalmente postado por englishman:

limit it per account

on a hourly/per/day/month/account thing yano

Originalmente postado por englishman:

off-topic > make it a subscription > steam pro with benefits to customer with various things including but not limited to better download manager

off-off-topic > when will steam >settings>interface be utilized

First off, this is not a social media site that limits the number of letters that can be used, learn to edit your post if you leave something out and people haven't responded yet.

Second....
We have no idea what you are talking about. Limit what? The speed? or something?

As to the "paying for a steam pro".... so you want to be charged money to download at the same speed you are downloading at now? Because Steam can flood your connection, there is ZERO home connections that Valve can not keep up with. If you are downloading slowly, its on your or your ISPs end, not Valves.

Downloading 2 or 3 or 4 or more games/updates at once would actually slow things down because it can only download as fast as your connection and computer can handle. Downloading 2 or 3 or 4 things at once will just split your speed depending on how many downloads you have. If you can download 40 megs per second, you can download 1 thing at 40 or download 4 things at 10. Or 2 things at 20 or 10 things at 4.

The downloads can only install as fast as your computer can handle, if you are installing on a regular spinning 7200rpm hard drive the more things it tries to download at once the slower it will go, the more things it tries to install at once the slower things will go.

If you are downloading other stuff while downloading updates on steam, it will slow down both if the download speed from the other site is fast enough.

For example, I can download at around 40megabytes a second. I limit my download speed in steam to 20megabytes a second so that I can download/watch/stream other stuff while downloading game updates. It also allows others in the house to download/watch/stream while steam updates stuff.

Paying Valve will not get you faster speeds, it will just get you an empty wallet. Another example, you downloading with your home connection is like connecting a garden hose to a city water main. No matter how much water you can get though that garden house, the city water main wouldn't even notice it.

You say "when will steam >settings>interface be utilized". Utilized for what? There is already lots of stuff there, but you don't actually say for what.

[Sam]

I'm just suggesting a new download manager that downloads more than 1 thing at a time. It's for those who have 1gb+ speeds...

[Sam]

Originalmente postado por englishman:

I'm just suggesting a new download manager that downloads more than 1 thing at a time. It's for those who have 1gb+ speeds...mostly.

lets say my computer is a 2000cpu core, 5000gb gddr5 ecc buffered ram computer with nvme ssds and 1gb+ port , (<-- irrelevant) downloading more than one game/app/update at a time is definitely faster than waiting each time to download the next file(s).

[Seretti]

Is it really faster? If I download one game in 1.5. hours at full speed, wouldn't it take 3 hours to get 2 games of the same size downloaded? the speed will be split between them and hence, I'd only have half of game A and half of game B in that 1.5 hours.

[Sam]

All understandable if your internet is dial-up but most the country is 1gb+ speeds

[Sam]

I guess it all depends on how fast steam allow you to download?

[Sam]

And anyways i'd like 7items at once rather than 1 file after another...

[Sam]

Originalmente postado por Seretti:

Is it really faster? If I download one game in 1.5. hours at full speed, wouldn't it take 3 hours to get 2 games of the same size downloaded? the speed will be split between them and hence, I'd only have half of game A and half of game B in that 1.5 hours.

Your missing the point of being able to download as many files as possible at once instead of 1 game/app per 1.5hours....

[Seretti]

Originalmente postado por englishman:

I guess it all depends on how fast steam allow you to download?

Okay, let's say you download a game in 20 minutes. When you start downloading 3 games at the same time, the speed will be split between them, meaning that in that 20 minutes, you only get 33% of game A, 33% of game B and 33% of game C.

It will take you 60 minutes before those games have finished downloading, meaning that is not faster.

[Sam]

Being able to download all 50games at once regardless of speed/time there all downloading rather than 1 at a time....

[Sam]

if theres no difference why has steam chosen 1 file at a time...