Wait, but you get 63MB/s down from steam?

My internet is pretty good, I can easily saturate my (rather dated) WiFi at about 30MB/s. But Steam downloads are extremely slow for me (can't remember the numbers but much less).

I always assumed Valve themselves were just stingy with bandwidth. Something else funny going on?

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Nextgrid 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Peering between your ISP and Valve is likely saturated.

Considering Valve has an incentive to make downloads fast (= more revenue), it's likely your ISP is being stingy in this case.

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bjackman 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I would have assumed valve use some third party CDN but yeah this would make sense I guess

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stefan_ 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And ISPs in most of the western world have no incentives to fix it, instead trying to scam Valve and others to get paid twice.

	▲	Nextgrid 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The business model of consumer ISPs is "take the money and don't deliver" so this tracks.

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user5994461 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It might have detected the wrong country/city for you. Check Settings -> Downloads -> Region

Otherwise it's just your WiFi being patchy. I think Steam is doing "friendly" bulk download, it slows down before the connection is saturated, to avoid disconnecting your wife/mum/siblings watching Youtube or on a videoconference.

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theragra 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

For me it varies a lot. Sometimes I get 800 Mbit and sometimes like 80 Mbit. Mostly closer to 800, tho.

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simoncion 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Wait, but you get 63MB/s down from steam?

I usually (but not always) saturate my downlink with Steam downloads... even back when I was a Comcast customer and paying for ~180MB/s (~1500mbit/s) asymmetric service.

I believe that I have noticed that smaller games (~a few hundred MB or maybe a GB or two) will download quite a bit slower than large games, but I'm not very confident in that observation.

	▲	Astronaut3315 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Comcast has Steam server(s) colocated within their network in my immediate area. I’ve observed that less popular downloads tend to connect to external servers in the next state over.

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lomase 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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