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.

bjackman 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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

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.