Check speed of different download sources and pick fastest

[askiiart]

It would be nice if the downloads were from the fastest source. Steam was downloading TF2 from another PC on my network, a very slow PC, and I had to manually make it switch to the Steam download servers, which were 18 times faster (450 / 25). It should do a speed test against all download sources and pick the fastest.

While we're at it, a speed test against a few different Steam download servers, maybe just testing a few from different time zones, could help speed up downloads and spread out the load. across servers

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by askiiart:

It would be nice if the downloads were from the fastest source. Steam was downloading TF2 from another PC on my network, a very slow PC, and I had to manually make it switch to the Steam download servers, which were 18 times faster (450 / 25). It should do a speed test against all download sources and pick the fastest.

While we're at it, a speed test against a few different Steam download servers, maybe just testing a few from different time zones, could help speed up downloads and spread out the load. across servers

Were you using the Local Network Game Transfer?

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/46BD-6BA8-B012-CE43

[askiiart]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by askiiart:

It would be nice if the downloads were from the fastest source. Steam was downloading TF2 from another PC on my network, a very slow PC, and I had to manually make it switch to the Steam download servers, which were 18 times faster (450 / 25). It should do a speed test against all download sources and pick the fastest.

While we're at it, a speed test against a few different Steam download servers, maybe just testing a few from different time zones, could help speed up downloads and spread out the load. across servers

Were you using the Local Network Game Transfer?

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/46BD-6BA8-B012-CE43

:summercat2023:

Yes, the issue is that it was downloading via Local Network Game Transfer, which was quite slow, rather than switching to the Steam download servers.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by askiiart:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Were you using the Local Network Game Transfer?

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/46BD-6BA8-B012-CE43

Yes, the issue is that it was downloading via Local Network Game Transfer, which was quite slow, rather than switching to the Steam download servers.

You should read/join this thread...

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/3/3775742435228207990/

[Satoru]

Local transfers are only designed to save internet bandwidth. It may or may not be 'faster' depending on a variety of factors. All of which more or less local bottlenecks

Since steam has to calculate, send over the patch data, then re-calculate the file, it may or may not be slower than downloading over the internet.

These are generally local processing problems, which you will in general have no matter where you get the source patch files from