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Mnemozina For 23 timer siden

Steam download speed capped

This is not meant as a complaint as I already have resolved my issue but wanted to spark a discussion.

I am located in Bulgaria (Eastern Europe) and in the country and especially I have very good speed and bandwidth (with the current ISP).

For some reason for several months most of the time my download speed of games was limited to 2.4 MB while I am able to download between 15-16 MB (sometimes simultaneously while downloading a game).

I tried a lot of things here are some of them:

Only using cable 1 gigabit connection.
Reinstalling the steam app and the games
Making sure there is no limitation in the speed or bandwidth in Steam settings
Changed Download region (will come back to that)
cleared Steam download Cache
Disabled Throttling
Checked ports used by steam that they are free and not blocked.
Checked HDD and CPU usage (both were low)
Checked Windows 10 firewall
Updated drivers
Temporarily disabled windows 10 firewall
Checked with ISP
Changed download location (different disk)
Flushed DNS and Changed DNS Servers to public one
Changed Speed & Duplex from "Auto Negotiation" to the highest available "Full Duplex"
Checked Quality of Service (QoS) settings in the router (I have them but they were not active)

There were some other suggestions about settings for drivers and steam.
In the end nothin helped.

After a Month I tried digging again but did not found many new suggestions. Since I had time on my hand I started switching Steam servers.
I think I tried most of the servers in Europe (there are quite a few) with the same result.

In the end I switched to one of the Indian Steam servers and I was downloading with 16 MB/s.
If it was a DNS issue releasing the DNS should have resolved it.

I don't think that there is any throttling done by Steam.

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SnakeJazz For 19 timer siden

Have the same issue and it occurs for the first time. My speedtest shows ~900mbps, other game launchers download with ~130mbps and Steam is downloading with stable 5mbps, wtf is this today?!

RPG Gamer Man For 19 timer siden

Most likely your ISP is throttling your speed. If they say they are not, they are lying. Look at your contract with your ISP. In the fine print, they usually hide they are throttling the speed during holiday seasons or during busy times. Every ISP throttles downloads, especially during busy or holdiay seasons. They also lie about doing it too. Best way to confirm is check your contracts. That is usually the paper people click " I AGREE" on without reading it. I do read it.

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sfnhltb For 19 timer siden

The most common case is your ISP is short on bandwidth/has oversold their network capacity (or the amount they rent off other ISPs/infrastructure providers) and are using traffic shaping to reduce traffic, sometimes at key times, sometimes for specific types of traffic or destinations, based on their assumptions of what will make their service look best - for example by not choking up traffic they consider higher priority, like traffic to speed test services, sites like netflix/youtube/voip/xoom that if they drop below a certain bandwidth it is immediately really obvious to the most technically ignorant end user there is a problem. Big download sites, steam, torrent/peer networking traffic and so on that just increase the finish time for a download rather than cause glitches and stuttering are likely candidates for such activity.

Tezzious For 17 timer siden

i download at my full gigabit speeds on steam, tops out around 124MegaBytes per second, it's either the local servers to you, or your isp routing badly or throttling steam connections.

SnakeJazz For 17 timer siden

I managed to fix my problem. After countless times I tried clearing cache, changing regions and stuff but my download was stuck at 5 mbps. So I decided to uninstall steam completely. After uninstalling, it took 15-20 minutes to download the 300mb for the application. I tried installing steam again and it wasn’t possible because the "Steam“ file wasn’t empty. I checked in my C: for "leftovers“ and found „Steam“ with "steamapps“ inside and it wasn’t possible to delete because it was "in use“. So inside there I discovered the file "iRacingService64“ which was used by "iracing .com“. After "killing“ this with the task manager, I was able to download again all my games as usual.

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Mnemozina For 3 timer siden

Oprindeligt skrevet af RPG Gamer Man:
Most likely your ISP is throttling your speed. If they say they are not, they are lying. Look at your contract with your ISP. In the fine print, they usually hide they are throttling the speed during holiday seasons or during busy times. Every ISP throttles downloads, especially during busy or holdiay seasons. They also lie about doing it too. Best way to confirm is check your contracts. That is usually the paper people click " I AGREE" on without reading it. I do read it.

I am not sure you have read through what I posted. So here in short. I was able to download with the full speed just not from Steam and I resolved it by switching regions in the settings where I selected a server on a different continent.

Mnemozina For 3 timer siden

Oprindeligt skrevet af sfnhltb:
The most common case is your ISP is short on bandwidth/has oversold their network capacity (or the amount they rent off other ISPs/infrastructure providers) and are using traffic shaping to reduce traffic, sometimes at key times, sometimes for specific types of traffic or destinations, based on their assumptions of what will make their service look best - for example by not choking up traffic they consider higher priority, like traffic to speed test services, sites like netflix/youtube/voip/xoom that if they drop below a certain bandwidth it is immediately really obvious to the most technically ignorant end user there is a problem. Big download sites, steam, torrent/peer networking traffic and so on that just increase the finish time for a download rather than cause glitches and stuttering are likely candidates for such activity.

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