Painfully slow download speeds

[Yakubian Ape]

Every time I try to download a game on steam for my mac, I can only get download speeds in the KB/s range, sometimes 1-1.5 MB/s. My speedtest download speed is 15 MB/s, and I know Steam download speeds are only a fraction of what is actually capable, but i should still be getting at least a constant 2 MB/s+. All my software is up to date and I've tried restarting everything but the satellite pinging my signal. I've noticed this has been an issue in the Steam OSX community for a while, does anybody have any solutions?

And please don't just say "mac is garbage for games, get PC"

[Aryath]

if you are in germany, then switch to Netherlands server (Steam > Settings > Downloads), and download is fast again

[Yakubian Ape]

Originally posted by Thaliviel:

if you are in germany, then switch to Netherlands server (Steam > Settings > Downloads), and download is fast again

I'm in America, I've tried switching between the two nearest server locations but it seemed to get worse when I did

[vesu]

xd

[Cathulhu]

Shortest route is not always the best, try some that are far away.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

The ones that were faster for me (I'm on the east coast) are, UAE, Vancover, Houston, South Korea and Sweden.

[Daemoc]

I have the same issue.

I have a brand new iMac and my DL's are @ dial up speeds. My PC gaming rig on the same network does not have this issue and they are using the same DL location. I have tried switching DL locations as well which only made things worse.

I have no other network speed issues with my iMac either. I have full speed during speed tests and can stream 4k video without issue. It's only with steam.

I can't say wether it's the MacOS or Steam, but something is broken somewhere.