Slow download fast network

[Copenwieser]

Recently i noticed that my downloads on steam have severely slowed down. It just took 30 minutes to download a 1 gig game. Download speed is less than 1 Mb. This is not normal. A month ago this would have taken a minute. This has been happening for a couple weeks now. It has been an issue with several games.
I checked my network speed during my last download and it was 796 Mbps download and 941 Mbps upload. My drives are at 0% usage when downloading. I checked the drives and they appear to be fine. I have plenty of space on my drives as well. I have tried my SSD and HD.
I though it my be a windows update issue but i rolled back the last months update and still the issue persists.

[black shadow 47]

Go to download settings and choose your country

[Tika Gunner (Demon Hunter Trump]

restart Router and Modem or Modem / Router. Check cables one tiny cut can break it, make sure ends are not frayed in any way. and lastly make sure \you plug cables in and they click in not slide in. Hope this helps

[Elucidator]

Its probably because of the combination of everything;
though when the new beta is pushed to release, it might increase your DL speed. I am not too sure of this though.

One reason why I suspect so many people report download speed issues is due to security issues with the Steam Client.

The steam client runs on an old version of Chromium, at least till the current beta client is pushed to release. Windows 11 has chromium incorporated into it. (primarily search, help and the default browser use this). It might be throttling Steam for this reason.

Secondly, Steam runs downloads through the Steam Client service, a background program that runs as System; rather than as a user app, which in itself runs a browser command (it makes chrome build into steam download stuff);

The download itself is essentially a mediastream, but this whole setup of execution, making it not a user-run download, causes it to be counted as a background task with low priority in my wild guess at least. Now Windows and all modern hardware on motherboards have all sorts of power saving stuff implemented into them. So, because of that, downloads are already slower through just steam.

And one keyword here is "just steam"; no user run download command is affected by this. (epic games, regular downloads, torrents, etc.)

A while ago I made this thread:
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/3/6655846466491940045/

You can probably see how bad it is, considering people's experience downloading files through steam, from just this.

There are a couple of things you could try which would depend on your hardware to see if they help, but usually at least disabling power saving features already helps.